Any Trope but You

DEBUT Margot Bradley is a popular romance novelist with a devoted following and a secret: she doesn’t actually believe in happily-ever-afters, even as she writes them for her beloved characters. After a failed engagement, she starts writing alternate, unhappy endings for her novels in a secret “Happily Never After” file. When the Happily Never After file is leaked during a livestream, Margot is in hot water and flees to a remote Alaskan lodge for six weeks to take a stab at switching genres by writing a romance-free murder mystery. There she meets Dr. Forrest Wakefield, who has recently moved back home from California to take care of his father, the ailing proprietor of the lodge. As Margot and Forrest slowly bond, they keep finding themselves in the middle of every single kind of romance-novel trope, of the sort Margot claims not to believe in. Fate seems to be pushing them together, but the question remains: can they overcome their fears about relationships before Margot leaves Alaska?