Author(s): Emily Henry

Romance

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. Until, 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.

STAFF REVIEW by Charly 

January has always believed in love and that it can heal all, until she found out that her parents' relationship was a lie. Now she's stuck at a beach house for the summer, with an empty bank account, wondering how she is going to write her new romance novel when she doesn’t know if she believes in love?

Gus is a serious literary type, and has had life make him believe that happy endings are only fiction and love doesn’t exist. He’s broke, lives alone and has writer's block. 

For the summer both of the authors strike up a deal to switch genres. While exploring the different genres lines start to blur between friendships and sparks start to fly… Beach read is not only a romance novel but a book about friendship, self discovery and acceptance and learning to love again.