A01=Clare Gilmore
Author_Clare Gilmore
Bestselling author
Category=FR
Category=FRB
Contemporary
Country music
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Fake dating
Friendship betrayal
Music industry
Rom-com
Romance
Second chance
Second chance romance
Shared bed trope
Songwriter
Summer
Summer reads
True love
Woman author
Women's fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781250383099
- Weight: 310g
- Dimensions: 137 x 213mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 2025
- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Twenty-five-year-old Paige Lancaster is one contract away from earning a living doing her favourite thing in the world: writing songs. But when a music industry professional suggests she might be holding back with her lyrics to lessen the heartbreak of an old flame, Paige doubts if her music is ready to be heard.
In a rare, impulsive move, Paige reaches out to Liam Bishop after four years of no-contact to ask him for a small favour: date her, and then re-break her heart, all so she can remember what those big, songworthy emotions felt like. And since Liam is the one who first set Paige on this career path, he hesitantly agrees.
Across two months of Liam’s summer work travel, the exes are forced to share hotel beds, rehash the past, and date in the present, all while navigating the building attraction between them they both swore was the one line of their agreement they wouldn’t cross.
But when it becomes near impossible not to act on their rippling chemistry, and as ever intensifying feelings blur reality with what’s driven by the music, Paige and Liam will both have to decide which is more important: art for the sake of it, or love over everything.
CLARE GILMORE lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with her husband and a rambunctious dog. She spends her moonlight hours cooking excessively elaborate meals and planning more vacations than she'll ever be able to take.
