Emily Henry

A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t.

They broke up six months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends.

Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most.

Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. They can’t stand to break their friends’ hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. It’s a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week…in front of those who know you best?

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Ashlyn Barrett

Regency era or not, in a lot of ways, he ruins me.

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(Bre)anne✨

Sarah Campbell

Like even when something beautiful breaks, the making of it still matters. 

Valentina

Alexus Duffy

I knew the only thing more painful than being without him would be being together knowing I no longer truly had him. 

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vinny<3

"No," he says quietly. "In every universe, it's you for me. Even if it's not me for you."

The most important friendships in my life all came down to a decision made by strangers, chance. 

My best friends taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don’t need to fill the space. And a new kind of loud: noise as a celebration, as the overflow of joy at being alive, here, now. 

Sophia

I understood, then, the immense honor it is to hurt like she does. To have loved someone so much that the taste of maple syrup can make you cry and laugh at the same time. 

Emma Hak-Kovacs

Fatiema 

Everything is changing. It has to. You can’t stop time.

All you can do is point yourself in a direction and hope the wind will let you get there.

“I know,” he says. “I think that’s really why I went. To find you.”

Deimante Jocaite 

His love is steady, constant. Easier than breathing, because breathing is something you can overthink, to the point that you forget how your lungs work and get yourself into a panic. 

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