Rental House
by Weike Wang
Keru and Nate first meet in college, brought together by a joke at a Halloween party and marrying a few years later. Misfits in their own families, they find in each other a feeling of home. Nevertheless, some years into their marriage, Keru and Nate find themselves incorporating their families into two carefully planned vacations. The results are disastrous and revealing, forcing the couple to confront the hidden truths at the core of their relationship.
Funny Story
by Emily Henry
Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. But when Daphne’s fiancé Peter dumps her before their wedding to be in a relationship with his best friend, Petra, Daphne is stranded in Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian. She rooms with Petra’s heartbroken ex, Miles, who is entirely the opposite of Daphne. They form a tenuous friendship, and Miles decides he will convince Daphne to give Waning Bay a real shot.
Just for the Summer
by Abby Jimenez
Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it’s now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They’ll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other’s out, and they’ll both go on to find the love of their lives. It’s a bonkers idea… and it just might work.
How to End a Love Story
by Yulin Kuang
Helen Zhang hasn’t seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever. Now she’s in Los Angeles, where the two have to work together. The result is messy, and electrifying.
The Paradise Problem
by Christina Lauren
Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she’d signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor, who is interested in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. There’s just one catch. Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather’s will, Liam won’t see a penny until he’s been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he’s in the home stretch, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse, and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he’s afraid to introduce to his one-percenter parents – his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife.
The Rom-Commers
by Katherine Centers
Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She’s spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies- good ones! That win contests! But she’s also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates- The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!- it’s a break too big to pass up. Emma’s younger sister steps in for caretaking duties, and Emma moves to L.A. for six weeks for the writing gig of a lifetime. But what is it they say? Don’t meet your heroes? Charlie Yates doesn’t want to write with anyone-much less “a failed, nobody screenwriter.”