Lauryn Harper Falls Apart

Lauryn Harper has an eight-year plan for her career, and it is going well until a mishap at work, which she thinks is blown out of proportion, gets her transferred. Her punishment is a post in the Ryser charity department, which sits in the hometown she left long ago. Her corporate employer is also the company that has been running that town into the ground.

Lauryn dreads going back and facing the people she left behind, one of them most of all. She makes a new plan: impress her boss enough to be sent straight back to her big city life.

The plan runs into trouble when her ex-best friend walks into the department and asks for help reviving the town. Her idea is to bring back the Greenstead Apple Festival, once a big event and the thing that first brought the two friends together. Faced with how she treated her friend, Lauryn agrees to host it, paid for by Ryser.

This is a comic small-town novel with a fall setting, told in the third person. It follows the friend who left and the friend who stayed as they work together. Expect chaotic planning sessions, town hijinks and a second chance with a childhood friend, all of it pushing Lauryn to question whether home is somewhere to run from.