How to End a Love Story; A Novel

A Love Story Written in Fate—And Rewriteable

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Two writers. A tangled past. A second chance neither saw coming.

Helen Zhang hasn’t crossed paths with Grant Shepard in thirteen years, not since the tragedy that forever changed both their lives. Now a bestselling author, she’s thrown herself into her career, determined to prove she belongs—especially now that she’s landed a dream role in the writers’ room of the TV adaptation of her hit YA series. If she can just shake off her imposter syndrome and conquer writer’s block, maybe the rest of her life will start making sense, too. Moving to LA was supposed to be a clean slate. No history. No baggage.

Except… Grant is here, too.

He’s spent years trying to move forward, building a name for himself as a screenwriter. The panic attacks still linger, but he’s made a home for himself in Hollywood. He knows taking a job on Helen’s show is a bad idea, but the opportunity is too good to pass up.

Helen remembers Grant as charming, funny, effortlessly magnetic—everything she never was. Grant remembers Helen as brilliant, beautiful, and impossible to read. But working side by side again is complicated, electric, and impossible to ignore. And Helen’s parents—who have never forgiven Grant—have no idea he’s back in her life.

As long-buried secrets resurface, Helen and Grant must face the truth: their story was never meant to be a love story. And yet… maybe the only way to make peace with the past—and themselves—is by rewriting the ending together.

A moving and deeply romantic enemies-to-lovers story from an exciting new voice in fiction—Yulin Kuang