Step into a novel that feels like an early 2000s romcom. This romantic comedy is The Devil Wears Prada meets the publishing industry. This story follows a struggling romance author stuck in her life and career. As life deals her another blow, she runs into her estranged childhood best friend, who also happens to be the love of her life. Hunter Nichols has always loved the idea of love. Reading about love in worn pages, watching love unfold on screen, and daydreaming about a love of her own. Unfortunately for Hunter, the person that lived in her daydream was her best friend Asher Benz, who didn’t feel the same way, turning decades of friendship to dust one summer night. These days, Hunter spends her life buried in work, neglecting her dreams and losing herself in failed relationships. Because for Hunter, it was never a matter of finding love, but who she found love with. Three years after the worst summer of Hunter’s life, she finds herself standing before the dingy, charming Rosewoods Bar, where she and Asher had spent most of their college nights. The same bar Asher felt the need to revisit. One sip, turned two, became talking the night away drinking their usual; two espresso martinis. Maybe it was Asher’s smile, honey brown eyes, or the way Hunter’s heart still skipped a beat when he said her name, or all the martinis, but when Asher proposed they enact their friendship pact and fake date each other for a summer of weddings, she couldn’t say no.