SYNOPSIS:

YA Fantasy writer THISBE GEORGE should be on top of the world. Her best-selling novel went mega-viral, and her agent is salivating over the upcoming movie release. Thisbe is not just in spiritual crisis, she’s in “almost-thirty everything” crisis. The college boyfriend she assumed she’d marry left a Dear Jane post-it-note behind. Her mother, a snooty Shakespeare Ivy League professor, disowned her for “killing the English language with a YA crack book”. Hate mail from Cape Disappointment, the town she “randomly” googled as her book’s setting, is accumulating along with take-out food boxes ... and, she can’t remember the last time she wore anything but yoga pants. She’s tried as many writer’s block cures as there are podcasts on the topic, and moved into her laundry room to write because it worked for Stephen King fifty-eight novels ago. Her publisher wanted the next novel in the trilogy six months ago, and issued an ultimatum — manuscript or return the advance. Thisbe’s manager stages an intervention. She banishes city girl Thisbe off to the real fishing village of Cape Disappointment, in the hope she’ll find inspiration. Where better to write the last book than the actual town, right? Talk about a fish out of water. BUT, the small town she sets the story in is overrun by cos-playing teens and rabid fans. To make matters worse, half the town is cash-mad, tearing the once tight-knit community a part. Added to Thisbe’s mess is BEN CODY, swoon worthy pub owner, who on her first day in town saves her from a suicidal deer, has banned fandom, book tourists, and media piranhas from his pub. Problem is the Rusty Hook the only five star yelp review for fifty miles. Thisbe keeps sneaking in the door for the mouthwatering food and (let’s be honest) man. Despite their mutual toe igniting attraction, he bans her from the pub when he finds out who she is. He keeps throwing her out, but the obstacle antes-up when his pub’s the only place Thisbe can write. Long absent words start flowing over cocktail napkins the minute she slides across the cracked red vinyl booth. In the midst of Thisbe’s “everything’s-gone-to-shit” crisis, she finds the friends and home she’s always longed for in Cape Disappointment. Thisbe, the world’s least talented “fixer”, is dead set on righting the wrongs her book has caused, but each problem she tries to solve creates a blizzard of new ones.