CBR16 Sweet Books: Exciting
Daphne used to have the perfect life. Working as a children’s librarian, living in a beautiful house with her fiancée Peter, Then, returning from his bachelor party, a shame-faced Peter confesses that he is in fact in love with his best friend Petra, and Daphne has one week to move all her things out of the house (which is owned entirely by Peter). Concluding that Petra’s equally dumped boyfriend Miles probably has some free space in his flat, Daphne moves in with him and begins her mental countdown for when she can get out of town. She’s not willing to leave until she’s pulled up her big end-of-summer Read-a-thon at the library, but she also can’t bear the thought of staying in Waning Bay any longer than necessary – forced to witness Peter’s new happiness with Petra.
After having to be told off from smoking weed in their shared apartment to dull his heartbreak, Miles turns out to be a pretty great roommate. They barely see each other, and Miles clearly doesn’t seem to understand Daphne’s need to map out her entire life on a whiteboard wall calendar. He’s also the only one who can truly understand how sucky this whole situation is for Daphne. When they receive wedding invitations to Petra and Peter’s wedding, they decide that the only thing to do is to get blind drunk. Their night of drunkenness leads to Daphne accepting the wedding invite, and complicating the situation further by telling Peter that Miles is, in fact, her plus one to the wedding, what with them dating now (he calls to reassure her that she doesn’t need to come to the wedding if it’ll be too painful).
During their drunken night out, Miles also discovers that Daphne is mentally counting down to leave town. He decides to be her tour guide and show her all the awesome things the town and surrounding area have to offer since he doesn’t think she should have to uproot herself entirely just because Peter and Petra turned out to be selfish homewreckers. They post some pictures on social media to make their lie about dating one another more believable, and since Waning Bay isn’t a very big place, soon most of the residents think they’re a couple.
As their friendship develops and their exes’ wedding comes closer, Miles’ plan to make Daphne appreciate her new hometown appears to be working. As they spend more time together, they also appear to be falling for one another. But falling in love with her ex-fiancée’s new fiancée’s ex-boyfriend can’t possibly end well?
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