The first few pages of the novel appear on Nora’s phone, and she is shocked to be reading what seems to be her own biography! Her character portrayal as a shark suits her, though she only secretly admits it.
All the while Nora is holding the hand of a nervous writer whose book was to be edited by yet another pregnant woman who has her baby early, leaving the job open. They even come up with a list that includes skinny-dipping and sleeping under the stars. It’s two years later and Libby is pregnant and wants to get away for Nora’s supposedly slow month of August for a sisters retreat to a small town where they can accomplish those things the heroines of romances did in small towns, like meeting and falling in love with someone new and saving a failing business. She was dumped last in a four-minute conversation before meeting Charlie Lastra who was equally intense in his editor’s job. She has little social life outside of work.
She was a literary book agent and sometimes editor, nudging her clients into writing their best, cajoling them into award-winning contracts, holding their hands and answering their e-mails at all hours. It was her mother’s obsession with romance novels that got her started, but it was business that kept her going. Ever since she was a little girl growing up with her younger sister Libby and her mother living over a bookstore, she’d been immersed in them.
Nora Stephens’s life revolves around books.
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