For eight years, Harriet and Wyn were the couple everyone else measured themselves against — until, quietly, they weren't. Five months after their engagement fell apart, they still haven't told a soul. So when their tight-knit college friend group gathers for its annual week at the beloved cottage in Maine, Harriet and Wyn do the only thing that seems less painful than the truth: they pretend nothing has changed.
That means sharing a room, sharing a bed, and performing a relationship they no longer have — all while the friends around them nurse secrets of their own, and the cottage that anchors every summer is quietly slipping out of reach. A surgical resident who avoids conflict at all costs, Harriet finds a week of forced proximity with the man she still loves almost unbearable, and slowly the reasons they broke up start to surface.
Told across the golden week in Maine and the years that led to it, Happy Place is a tender, bittersweet romance about the difference between loving someone and being right for them — and about whether a second chance is worth the honesty it demands.