by Joss Richard
First published 2025
June Wood's television career crashes when her hit show gets canceled. A cryptic email draws her back to New York City and the brownstone where she lived before fleeing to Los Angeles. The building's deceased owner has left it to June and Adam Harper, her former roommate, through an unusual will provision. They have one month to complete the paperwork before June can sell her half and return to LA forever. The problem is that June and Adam haven't spoken in five years after their friendship imploded. Living together again in the same space where their relationship fell apart, they cook meals and talk through the night. Old resentments surface alongside the attraction they never resolved. June must decide whether to claim her inheritance and run, or stay and repair what broke between them years ago. The autumn weeks force both to examine the choices that drove them apart.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: bittersweet, character-driven, emotional, intimate, introspective
Tropes: forced-proximity, friends-to-lovers, past-mistakes, second-chance-romance
Setting: New York City, Los Angeles, Brownstone
Period: 21st-century, contemporary
432 pages · Paperback · Random House Publishing Group