Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She's spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies-good ones! That win contests! But she's also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care.

 

Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates-The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!-it's a break too big to pass up.

 

Emma's younger sister steps in for caretaking duties, and Emma moves to L.A. for six weeks for the writing gig of a lifetime. But what is it they say? Don't meet your heroes? Charlie Yates doesn't want to write with anyone-much less "a failed, nobody screenwriter." Worse, the romantic comedy he's written is so terrible it might actually bring on the apocalypse.

 

Plus! He doesn't even care about the script-it's just a means to get a different one green-lit. Oh, and he thinks love is an emotional Ponzi scheme.

 

But Emma's not going down without a fight. She will stand up for herself, and for rom-coms, and for love itself.

 

She will convince him that love stories matter-even if she has to kiss him senseless to do it. But . .

 

. what if that kiss is accidentally amazing? What if real life turns out to be so much . .

 

. more real than fiction? What if the love story they're writing breaks all Emma's rules-and comes true?