HACHETTE BOOK GROUP UK | Beach Read: Deluxe Edition (Sprayed Edges)

FEATURES:

✅ A shimmering revamped cover

✅ Sunset sky art endpapers and sprayed edges

✅ Gold foil stamped case, and...

✅ A new introduction from the author and a bonus January and Gus epilogue, “The Layover”

✅ A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.

✅ Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a Happily Ever After, he kills off his entire cast.

✅ They’re polar opposites.

✅ In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke and bogged down with writer’s block.

✅ Then one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.