Including her first heartbreak.ĭuring a whirlwind two-week vacation abroad, Sam and Tate fell for each other in only the way that first loves do: sharing all of their hopes, dreams, and deepest secrets along the way. Sam Brandis was Tate Jones’s first: Her first love. Colby,” but is she prepared to learn the truth behind the fiction?įrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners and the “delectable, moving” ( Entertainment Weekly) My Favorite Half-Night Stand comes a modern love story about what happens when your first love reenters your life when you least expect it… The only way she can put her mind at ease is to find and confront “J. Far from being flattered that he wrote the novel from her perspective, Emiline is furious that he co-opted her painful past and took some dramatic creative liberties with the ending. Colby” must be Jase: the best friend and first love she hasn’t seen in over a decade. That’s because the novel is patterned on Emiline’s own dark and desperate childhood, which means that “J. Yet from the very first page, Emiline is entranced by the story of Emerson and Jackson, two childhood best friends who fall in love and dream of a better life beyond the long dirt road that winds through their impoverished town in rural Ohio. As an adjunct writing instructor at UC San Diego with her own stalled literary career and a bumpy long-term relationship, Emiline isn’t thrilled to celebrate the accomplishments of a young and gifted writer. Colby becomes the literary event of the year, Emiline reads it reluctantly. When a bestselling debut novel from mysterious author J. Sunset magazine’s “Bookmark this: Your ultimate summer reading list”įrom USA TODAY bestselling author Renée Carlino ( Before We Were Strangers), a warm and witty novel about a struggling writer who must come to grips with her past, present, and future after she discovers that she’s the inspiration for a pseudonymously published bestselling novel.

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