
From the USA Today bestselling creator of Nora Goes Off Script, a novel approximately a former adolescent TV punchline who has left her awkwardness within the rearview replicate thanks to a faux-it-until-you-make-it mantra that has her at the cusp of achievement, until she tells a lie that units her on a crash-path together with her past, spending per week in Long Island with the last man she thinks might make her trust in love.
Rules for a love story: There are none. It’s all a lie.
Jane Jackson is aware of that actual love is a lie. Laughter is the only reality—you could’t faux a stomach snort. Jane should realize, she spent her adolescence as “Poor Janey Jakes,” the fish fry-sauce-in-her-braces punchline on America’s 5th-preferred sitcom.
Now she’s a Creative Executive at Clearwater Studios and she or he’s dwelling by way of a new mantra: Fake it till you make it.
Except, she may have faked it too some distance. Desperate to get her first undertaking greenlit and riled up by means of pompous cinematographer and one-time crush Dan Finnegan, she opened her mouth and a large fats fib fell out. She claimed that Jack Quinlan, freshest popstar of the moment, has promised to write an original song for the soundtrack. Jack may additionally had been her first kiss—and finest source of shame—but she hasn’t spoken to him in 20 years.
Now, Jane must flip to the remaining man she’d ever want to owe: Dan Finnegan. Because Jack is gambling a competition in Dan’s native land on Long Island, and Dan has an in. A week in near quarters with Dan at the same time as going through down her beyond is Jane’s concept of hell, but Dan just would possibly surprise her. While protecting up her lie, can they discover something proper?