We Met Like This

Margot Hart works in publishing and believes, professionally and personally, in a good opening. She wants a story she can tell: a real meet-cute, not a swipe. Which is why the thing she has with Oliver is so inconvenient. They matched once, went on one disastrous first date, and have kept rematching on app after app ever since.

When Margot's job falls out from under her and she starts building something of her own, Oliver turns out to be the person who keeps showing up — steady, unglamorous, and nothing like the romance she scripted for herself. What has stayed unspoken between them for three years does not stay that way.

Kasie West's adult debut keeps the warmth and comic timing of her young-adult work and turns it on a heroine whose problem is the story she insists on telling about her own life.