Beach Read
Overview:
When an idealistic romance novelist and a cynical literary fiction writer—rival authors with dramatically opposing worldviews and a serious case of writer's block—unexpectedly find themselves living next door to each other in a small Lake Michigan beach town for the summer, they strike an unlikely bet to swap genres and the lines between fiction and romance begin to blur.
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