The Roughest Draft
Three years ago, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen were publishing's brightest new stars — a co-writing duo whose novels topped the bestseller lists. Then, at the height of their success, they parted on bitter terms neither would explain, and they haven't spoken since.
Now a contract forces a reunion: one last book, owed and overdue. Katrina, creatively stalled and stuck in a stifling relationship, and Nathan, navigating his own private unraveling, hole up in a small Florida town to hammer out a final manuscript. But writing a romance together while nursing three years of resentment proves impossible without confronting what really drove them apart — and the feelings neither of them ever admitted.
Told in dual timelines and alternating points of view, Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka's The Roughest Draft is a witty, emotionally rich second-chance romance about creative partnership, honesty and the stories we tell to protect ourselves.
A stalled novelist reunited with her estranged co-writer for a final book.
Katrina's co-author, whose fraught partnership with her hides deeper feelings.
Katrina's fiancé and their former literary agent, whose push for the reunion book complicates her feelings for Nathan.
A blunt, outspoken friend of Katrina and Nathan's who pushes the plot forward.