#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ A shimmering joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the
wrong thing in common from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. A NEW YORK TIMES
NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by TIME ∙ NPR ∙ ELLE ∙ Parade ∙ Woman’s
World and more! Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met
(on a blustery day) fell in love (over an errant hat) and moved back to his lakeside hometown
to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he
realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne
begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay Michigan without friends or family but
with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills) and proposing to be
roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex Miles
Nowak. Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love
ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical buttoned up Daphne whose coworkers know so
little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The
roommates mainly avoid one another until one day while drowning their sorrows they form a
tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading
photos of their summer adventures together well who could blame them? But it’s all just for
show of course because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling
in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex . . . right?
