Tropesick

Katie Caruso is twenty-five and has spent the last eight years working at seeming ordinary. She likes glitter, sequins and flirting with men in New York City bars. Her day job is ghostwriting for Meredith Bradford, the top-selling romance novelist of all time.

Then Tyler McNally returns. He was the best friend of Katie's older brother, a high school pitcher projected to be the first pick in the MLB draft, who died of an overdose. Katie and Tyler have not spoken since.

Tyler has changed. He now has sleeve tattoos, an Ivy League degree, nine years of sobriety and ambitions as a literary fiction novelist. He is also Katie's writing partner for the summer.

Within a month, the pair leave Manhattan for Meredith's secluded Hampton estate, where they write a love story together in forced proximity, just as the genre demands. As the summer goes on, the tropes they put into their manuscript start turning up in their own lives.

The years and the loss between Katie and Tyler have not ended what began when she was the girl next door. This time they mean to fight for the ending, and the question is whether the story they started can finally be finished.