It's a Love Story

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Poignant, funny, and bingeable, Annabel Monaghan writes five star reads. Abby Jimenez

From the USA Today bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script, a novel about a former adolescent TV punchline who has left her awkwardness in the rearview mirror thanks to a fake-it-till-you-make-it mantra that has her on the cusp of success, until she tells a lie that sets her on a crash-course with her past, spending a week in Long Island with the last man she thinks might make her believe in love.

Rules for growing up in Hollywood: Love is a lie. Laughter is the only truth.

Jane Jackson spent her adolescence as "Poor Janey Jakes," the barbecue-sauce-in-her-braces punchline on America's fifth-favorite sitcom. Now shes trying to be taken seriously as a Hollywood studio executive by embracing a new mantra: Fake it till you make it.

Except she might have faked it too far. Desperate to get her first project greenlit and riled up by pompous cinematographer and one-time crush Dan Finnegan, she claimed that she could get mega popstar Jack Quinlan to write a song for the movie. Jack may have been her first kissand greatest source of shamebut she hasnt spoken to him in twenty years.

Now Jane must turn to the last man shed ever want to owe: Dan Finnegan. Because Jack is playing a festival in Dans hometown, and Dan has an in. A week in close quarters with Dan as she faces down her past is Jane's idea of hell, but he just might surprise her. While covering up her lie, can they find something true

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Annabel Monaghan is the USA Today bestselling and Library Reads Hall of Fame author of Summer Romance, Same Time Next Summer, and Nora Goes Off Script, as well as two young adultnovels and Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big, a selection of laugh-out-loud columns that appeared in The Huffington Post, The Week, and The Rye Record.She lives in Connecticut with her family.