“Vibrant voice-y tender genuinely funny and bursting with all the imperfect charm of a real
hopeful love. I can’t wait to make everyone I know read this.”—Casey McQuiston #1 New York
Times bestselling author of The Pairing In this sapphic homage to While You Were Sleeping a
down-on-her-luck receptionist is mistaken as the girlfriend of a comatose man and doesn’t have
the heart to come clean to his devastated family—even when she starts falling for his sister.
Alice Rue has never spoken to her longtime crush Nolan Altman but after she saves his life
the EMTs tell his family that Alice is Nolan’s girlfriend. She wants to set the record straight
but Nolan’s in a coma and if the family feels comforted by the idea of Nolan having his
“girlfriend” by his side for what might be his last moments isn’t it kinder to go along with
it? At least for now? The Altmans are impossibly nice and supportive and there’s something
about Nolan’s sister Van that makes Alice feel more seen and understood than she has in years.
She knows it’s wrong to lie but it’s easy to convince herself that she’s doing the right thing
by evading the truth. But what she can’t avoid is her growing chemistry with Van. Alice must
decide if she can unravel this tangle of lies to salvage her chances with the woman who just
may be the love of her life—especially if Nolan wakes up. Warm witty and full of heart this
debut rom-com is a love story for pessimists who secretly hope for their own happily ever
after.
