Best-selling romance author Margot Bradley doesn’t believe in happily ever afters. She has a secret folder on her computer where she creates alternate realistic endings to her books. During a zoom event for her newest book, the file is hacked and shared with her readers. Margot is canceled.
Deeply saddened by the anger of her fans, Margot flees to the wilds of Alaska. Her sister, Savannah, plans the accommodations, booking her trip in a rustic lodge without Wi-Fi. Even though her publisher is also unhappy with her, Margot is excited to use the next six weeks to write her next book – not a romance.
Upon her arrival, a moose scares her into leaping into the arms of the lodge owner’s son. Unbeknownst to her, Forrest is the living embodiment of a romance hero.
Savannah also signs Margot up for outdoor excursions, at the end of which, Margot receives a letter from her sister. Each letter makes Margot confront a moment from her past but also allows her to move a step closer to healing.
Will her stay in the middle of nowhere become a happily ever after?
ANY TROPE BUT YOU is a charming debut romance novel that contains a dual point of view, lots of romance tropes, banter, family drama, and so much snow. The outdoor experiences added humor. The letters from her sister deepened Margot’s character as it added pieces to her back story. I didn’t want to put this book down. I can’t wait to read the author’s next book.
A bestselling romance author flees to Alaska to reinvent herself and write her first murder mystery, but the rugged resort proprietor soon has her fearing she’s living in a rom-com plot instead in this earnestly spectacular debut by a stunning new voice.
Beloved romance author Margot Bradley has a dark secret: she doesn’t believe in Happily Ever Afters. Not for herself, not for her readers, and not even for her characters, for whom she secretly writes alternate endings that swap weddings and babies for divorce papers and the occasional slashed tire. When her Happily Never After document is hacked and released to the public, she finds herself canceled by her readers and dropped by her publisher.
Desperate to find a way to continue supporting her chronically ill sister, Savannah, Margot decides to trade meet-cutes for murder. The fictional kind. Probably. But when Savannah books Margot a six-week stay in a remote Alaskan resort to pen her first murder mystery, Margot finds herself running from a moose and leaping into the arms of the handsome proprietor, making her fear she’s just landed in a romance novel instead.
The last thing Dr. Forrest Wakefield ever expected was to leave his dream job as a cancer researcher to become a glorified bellhop. What he’s really doing at his family’s resort is caring for his stubborn, ailing father, and his puzzle-loving mind is slowly freezing over—until Margot shows up. But Forrest doesn’t have any room in his life for another person he could lose, especially one with a checkout date.
As long snowy nights and one unlikely trope after another draw Margot and Forrest together, they’ll each have to learn to overcome their fears and set their aside assumptions before Margot leaves—or risk becoming a Happily Never After story themselves.
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