From New York Times bestselling author Kristy Woodson Harvey comes a funny, feel-good tale—a seaside romp about chasing dreams, losing illusions, and writing your own story.

Ready for her big break after publishing her first novel, Lila Everwood has two fresh book ideas and dreams of quitting her barista job. She’s hopeful about her future—until her writing catches her literary idol’s attention in all the wrong ways.

Elizabeth Lancaster, the queen of regency romance, hasn’t written a word in three years. Her publisher’s solution? A ghostwriter. Specifically, her favorite coffee server. It’s either brilliance or madness—and her literary agent son Grady thinks it’s definitely the latter.

As the ideas begin to fly, so do the sparks—between Lila and Grady. And, as Lila’s and Elizabeth’s worlds collide, the two writers must lean on each other, learning something vital in the process: In life, love, and publishing, sometimes you have to write your own happy ending.

Kristy Woodson Harvey is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of a dozen novels, including Summer State of Mind, Beach House Rules, and the Peachtree Bluff series. Two of her titles—A Happier Life and The Summer of Songbirds—are in development for film and TV. Along with accolades from Good Morning America, Southern Living, Katie Couric, and JoAnna Garcia Swisher, she’s won the Lucy Bramlette Patterson Award for Excellence in Creative Writing and was a finalist for the Southern Book Prize.

Kristy graduated summa cum laude from UNC-Chapel Hill’s school of journalism and has a master’s in English from East Carolina University. Her writing has appeared in Southern Living, Parade, and USA Today. She’s the cocreator and cohost of Friends & Fiction, a hit web show and podcast, and cofounder of the award-winning Design Chic website with her mom, Beth Woodson. She lives with her husband, son, and dog, Salt, on the North Carolina coast, where she’s always at work on her next novel.