ANY TROPE BUT YOU

A delightful and steamy rom-com debut.

Beloved romance author Margot Bradley doesn't believe in Happily Ever Afters. She secretly writes Happily Never Afters: alternate endings that swap weddings and babies for divorce papers and slashed tires. But romance pays the bills - until a fan hacks her computer and leaks her Happily Never After file. Canceled by BookTokkers and dropped by her publisher, Margot decides to trade meet-cutes for murder. The fictional kind. Margot's sister books her a six-week stay in a remote Alaskan resort to pen her murder mystery. When Margot arrives and finds herself leaping into the arms of the handsome proprietor to escape the wildlife, she fears she's just landed in a romance novel plot instead. Dr. Forrest Wakefield never expected to leave his dream job to work at his family's resort while caring for his ailing father. Forrest doesn't have any room in his life for another person he could lose. As one unlikely trope after another draws them together, they'll each have to learn to melt the ice around their heartsor become a Happily Never After story themselves. Victoria Lavine's love of romance novels started in high school with a crate of old bodice rippers and a wink from her local librarian. Now, she writes her own Happily Ever Afters when she's not enjoying the great state of Maine with her husband and daughter.