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Beach Read By Emily Henry 2020 380 pages Published by Berkley Synopsis : Broke and suffering writer’s block, January Andrews moves to the shores of Lake Michigan right into the secret house, and painful memory, of her late father’s affair. She plans to live mercifully rent free while clearing out the house’s contents and finishing her overdue novel, but when the next-door neighbor turns out to be her crush/writing nemesis from college the summer takes an unexpected turn. Augustus ‘Gus’ Everett has a “sexy-evil” smile and a pessimistic outlook on life. He writes moody literary fiction and, January suspects, looks down on her romance novels. A bet to see who can finish their book first, written in the other’s genre, prompts the two blocked writers to make shared research road trips that vacillate between the macabre and the cutesy. Amidst the hilarious banter Gus and January slowly grow closer, but how well does she really know him? January must decide how much love is worth and if ...