A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK ∙ AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ Two writers compete for
the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists
up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping novel from Emily Henry. As featured in The New
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and more! Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden
Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little
Crescent Island for the same reason: to write the biography of a woman no one has seen in
years—or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic
heiress former tabloid princess and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous)
families of the twentieth century. When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial
period after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story there are three things
keeping Alice’s head in the game. One: Alice genuinely likes people which means people
usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over. Two: She’s
ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious
Publication. Three: Hayden Anderson who should have no reason to be concerned about losing
this book is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as
competition. But the problem is Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story.
Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning
pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room. And it’s becoming abundantly clear
that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery tragedy or love
ballad . . . depending on who’s telling it.
