Three years ago, Tanner
Scott’s family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged
the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet. Now, with one
semester of high school to go, and no obstacles between him and
out-of-state college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his
remaining classes and clear out of Utah.
But when his best friend
Autumn dares him to take Provo High’s prestigious Seminar—where honor
roll students diligently toil to draft a book in a semester—Tanner can’t
resist going against his better judgment and having a go, if only to
prove to Autumn how silly the whole thing is. Writing a book in four
months sounds simple. Four months is an eternity.
It turns out, Tanner is only partly right: four months is
a long time. After all, it takes only one second for him to notice
Sebastian Brother, the Mormon prodigy who sold his own Seminar novel the
year before and who now mentors the class. And it takes less than a
month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him.
Olive is always
unlucky: in her career, in love, in…well, everything. Her identical twin
sister Ami, on the other hand, is probably the luckiest person in the
world. Her meet-cute with her fiancé is something out of a romantic
comedy (gag) and she’s managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a
series of Internet contests (double gag). Worst of all, she’s forcing
Olive to spend the day with her sworn enemy, Ethan, who just happens to
be the best man.
Olive braces herself to get through 24 hours of
wedding hell before she can return to her comfortable, unlucky life. But
when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning from eating bad
shellfish, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. And
now there’s an all-expenses-paid honeymoon in Hawaii up for grabs.
Putting
their mutual hatred aside for the sake of a free vacation, Olive and
Ethan head for paradise, determined to avoid each other at all costs.
But when Olive runs into her future boss, the little white lie she tells
him is suddenly at risk to become a whole lot bigger. She and Ethan now
have to pretend to be loving newlyweds, and her luck seems worse than
ever. But the weird thing is that she doesn’t mind playing pretend. In
fact, she feels kind of... lucky.
