Annabel Monaghan

Evvie Drake Starts Over meets Beach Read in this heartwarming and hilarious novel about a divorced romance channel screenwriter whose script about her marriage’s collapse just might help her reclaim her life and find love. Nora’s life is about to get a rewrite… Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. As a romance channel screenwriter, it’s her job. But when her too-good-to work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage’s collapse into cash and writes the best script of her life. No one is more surprised than her when it’s picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her 100-year-old-home. When former Sexiest Man Alive, Leo Vance, is cast as her ne’er do well husband Nora’s life will never be the same. The morning after shooting wraps and the crew leaves, Nora finds Leo on her porch with a half-empty bottle of tequila and a proposition. He’ll pay a thousand dollars a day to stay for a week. The extra seven grand would give Nora breathing room, but it’s the need in his eyes that makes her say yes. Seven days: it’s the blink of an eye or an eternity depending on how you look at it. Enough time to fall in love. Enough time to break your heart. Filled with warmth, wit, and wisdom, Nora Goes Off Script is the best kind of love story—the real kind where love is complicated by work, kids, and the emotional baggage that comes with life. For Nora and Leo, this kind of love is bigger than the big screen.

Nora Goes Off Script

For fans of Carley Fortune’s Every Summer After, from the author of Nora Goes Off Script comes the ultimate summer nostalgia read, about a woman whose return to her family’s beach house to plan her wedding brings her and her fiancé unexpectedly face to face with her first love who she hasn't seen in fourteen years, but who she spent every summer with from age five to seventeen when he broke her heart, calling into question everything she thought she knew about their love story, and herself. Beach Rules: Do take long walks on the sand. Do put an umbrella in every cocktail. Do not run into your first love. Sam’s life is on track. She has the perfect doctor fiancé, Jack (his strict routines are a good thing, really), a stable job in Manhattan (unless they fire her), and is about to tour a wedding venue near her family’s Long Island beach house. Everything should go to plan, yet the minute she arrives, Sam senses something is off. Wyatt is here. Her Wyatt. But there’s no reason for a thirty-year-old engaged woman to feel panicked around the guy who broke her heart when she was seventeen. Right? Yet being back at this beach, hearing notes from Wyatt’s guitar float across the night air from next door as if no time has passed—Sam’s memories come flooding back: the feel of Wyatt’s skin on hers, their nights in the treehouse, and the truth behind their split. Sam remembers who she used to be, and as Wyatt reenters her life their connection is as undeniable as it always was. She will have to make a choice. Is her heart worth the risk?

Same Time Next Summer

The heart-tugging and hilarious story of a professional organizer whose life is a mess, and the summer she gets unstuck with the help of someone unexpected from her past, from the bestselling author of Same Time Next Summer and Nora Goes Off Script. Benefits of a summer romance: it’s always fun, always brief, and no one gets their heart broken. There aren’t enough labeled glass containers to contain the mess that is Ali Morris’s life. Her mom died two years ago, then her husband left, and she hasn’t worn pants with a zipper in longer than she cares to remember. She’s a professional organizer whose pantry is a disgrace. No one is more surprised than Ali when the first time she takes off her wedding ring and puts on pants with hardware—overalls count, right?—she meets someone. Or rather, her dog claims a man for her in the same way he claimed his favorite of her three children: by peeing on him. Ethan smiles at Ali like her pants are just right—like he likes what he sees. The last thing Ali needs is to make her life messier, but there’s no harm in a little Summer Romance. Is there?

Summer Romance

After identifying a terrorist plot, a brilliant seventeen-year-old girl from Santa Monica, California, gets involved with the young FBI agent who is trying to ensure her safety.

A Girl Named Digit

From the USA Today bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script, a novel about a former adolescent TV punchline who has left her awkwardness in the rearview mirror thanks to a fake-it-till-you-make-it mantra that has her on the cusp of success, until she tells a lie that sets her on a crash-course with her past, spending a week in Long Island with the last man she thinks might make her believe in love.

Rules for a love story: There are none. It’s all a lie.

Jane Jackson knows that true love is a lie. Laughter is the only truth—you can’t fake a belly laugh. Jane should know, she spent her adolescence as "Poor Janey Jakes," the barbecue-sauce-in-her-braces punchline on America's fifth-favorite sitcom. Now she’s a Creative Executive at Clearwater Studios and she’s living by a new mantra: Fake it till you make it.

Except, she might have faked it too far. Desperate to get her first project greenlit and riled up by pompous cinematographer and one-time crush Dan Finnegan, she opened her mouth and a big fat fib fell out. She claimed that Jack Quinlan, hottest popstar of the moment, has promised to write an original song for the soundtrack. Jack may have been her first kiss—and greatest source of shame—but she hasn’t spoken to him in twenty years.

Now, Jane must turn to the last man she’d ever want to owe: Dan Finnegan. Because Jack is playing a festival in Dan’s hometown on Long Island, and Dan has an in. A week in close quarters with Dan while facing down her past is Jane's idea of hell, but Dan just might surprise her. While covering up her lie, can they find something true?

It's a Love Story

“Bursting with the magic of first love, it’s everything I want in a summer romance.” —Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of EVERY SUMMER AFTER Named a Best Book of Summer by Real Simple • Reader’s Digest • Country Living • The Skimm • BookBub • GoodReads Beach Rules: Do take long walks on the sand. Do put an umbrella in every cocktail. Do NOT run into your first love. Sam’s life is on track. She has the perfect doctor fiancé, Jack (his strict routines are a good thing, really), a great job in Manhattan (unless they fire her), and is about to tour a wedding venue near her family’s Long Island beach house. Everything should go to plan, yet the minute she arrives, Sam senses something is off. Wyatt is here. Her Wyatt. But there’s no reason for a thirty-year-old engaged woman to feel panicked around the guy who broke her heart when she was seventeen. Right? Yet being back at this beach, hearing notes from Wyatt’s guitar float across the night air from next door as if no time has passed—Sam’s memories come flooding back: the feel of Wyatt’s skin on hers, their nights in the treehouse, and the truth behind their split. Sam remembers who she used to be, and as Wyatt reenters her life their connection is as undeniable as it always was. She will have to make a choice.

Digit attends MIT, where she hopes to lead a normal life, but Jonas Furnace, the ecoterrorist she foiled before, knows where she is, and he's gunning for her. By the author of A Girl Named Digit. 15,000 first printing.

Double Digit

Thoughts for Moms and Other Tired People

Does this Volvo Make My Butt Look Big?

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK A hardworking single mom returns to her seaside hometown and stumbles into a fake dating situationship with a wealthy, workaholic scion, from the New York Times bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script. “A luminous story of love, duty, and the tension between the two, Dolly All the Time is less like a novel and more like a place I never wanted to leave. This might be my new favorite!” —Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author If they start by pretending, can they end with something real? Dolly Brick has never met a problem she couldn’t solve. Not when her mom left when she was twelve, and not at thirty-nine when she moves with her son back to Whitfield, Rhode Island, for the summer to keep her dad and brother from losing the family home. So when she comes across Stewart Whitfield—annoyingly handsome scion of the Whitfield family—with a flat tire and at the wrong end of a very public, very humiliating breakup, it’s in her nature to help. But Stewart’s proposed arrangement ends up being more than either of them bargained for, because as public dinners and high-society benefits turn into sunset boat rides and kisses that hit her bloodstream like a ghost pepper, Dolly starts to feel something more than helpful. She’s never relied on anyone besides herself—can she really start now? “This book is like a spicy margarita…sweet and a little salty, tart and hot…I have fallen in love with Dolly and with funny, fizzing Annabel Monaghan!” —Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich

Dolly All the Time: A GMA Book Club Pick

'Summer Romance brims with heart, wit, and longing -- the signature ingredients of my favourite beach reads. Anything Annabel writes, I'm reading it' - Carley FortuneBenefits of a summer romance: it's always fun, always brief, and no one gets their heart broken.There aren't enough labeled glass containers to contain the mess that is Ali Morris's life. Her mum died two years ago, then her husband left, and she hasn't worn pants with a zipper in longer than she cares to remember. She's a professional organiser whose pantry is a disgrace. No one is more surprised than Ali when the first time she takes off her wedding ring and puts on pants with hardware -- overalls count, right? -- she meets someone. Or rather, her dog claims a man for her in the same way he claimed his favourite of her three children: by peeing on him. Ethan smiles at Ali like her pants are just right --like he likes what he sees. The last thing Ali needs is to make her life messier, but there's no harm in a little summer romance. Is there?The heart-tugging and hilarious new book from the bestselling author of Same Time Next Summer and Nora Goes Off Script.'Annabel Monaghan has joined my shortlist of instant autobuy authors. Her writing is packed full of chemistry and warmth and I could not put this book down' - Paige Toon

The Must-Read Love Story That Will Steal Your Heart This Year

‘Vol warmte, humor en personages met wie je bevriend zou willen zijn. Nora schrijft haar eigen verhaal is een perfecte, heerlijke feelgoodroman.’ — Real Simple Nora Hamilton kent de formule van liefde als geen ander. Als scenarioschrijver van romantische films schudt ze die zo uit haar mouw. Maar als Nora’s man ineens vertrekt, besluit ze dit mislukte huwelijk in cash om te zetten en schrijft het beste (niet-romantische) script van haar leven. Tot haar verbazing wordt het opgepikt om een Hollywood-film van te maken, en zal het filmen ervan gaan plaatsvinden in haar eigen huis. Wanneer de onmogelijk knappe acteur Leo Vance haar ex gaat spelen, zal Nora’s leven nooit meer hetzelfde zijn. Als de ochtend na alle opnames de crew vertrokken is, vindt Nora Leo op haar veranda met een halflege fles tequila en een voorstel. Duizend dollar per dag om een week langer te mogen blijven. Het geld kan Nora goed gebruiken, maar het is vooral de nood in zijn ogen die haar ja doet zeggen. Zeven dagen: ze kunnen in een oogwenk voorbij zijn of een eeuwigheid duren. Genoeg tijd om verliefd te worden. Genoeg tijd om je hart te breken... ‘Grappig, verslavend en zalig romantisch, dit is precies het soort boek dat we op dit moment allemaal nodig hebben.’ — Rosie Walsh

Nora schrijft haar eigen verhaal

Nora Hamilton świetnie zna się na miłości. Przynajmniej teoretycznie. Pisanie romantycznych scenariuszy filmowych to przecież jej zawód. Kiedy jej mąż zostawia ją wraz z dwójką ich dzieci, Nora rozpad swojego małżeństwa zmienia w najlepszy scenariusz, jaki kiedykolwiek napisała. Tekst Nory staje się kanwą dla wielkoekranowej produkcji, a jej stuletni, malowniczy dom w Hudson Valley – planem filmowym. Życie Nory już nigdy nie powróci w utarte koleiny, szczególnie że w roli jej byłego męża obsadzono Leo Vance’a – obecnie najseksowniejszego aktora na świecie. Po zakończeniu zdjęć Leo nie kwapi się do opuszczenia domu Nory. Ma za to dla niej propozycję nie do odrzucenia: tysiąc dolarów za każdy dzień spędzony pod jej dachem. Tydzień z dala od hoteli i blichtru, w rodzinnej atmosferze. Siedem dni może minąć w okamgnieniu, może też wydawać się wiecznością. Siedem dni to wystarczająco długo, by się zakochać. I wystarczająco długo, by złamać komuś serce. Ciepła, dowcipna i mądra książka Annabel Monaghan to wyjątkowo autentyczna opowieść o blaskach i cieniach miłości, o tym, jak bywa skomplikowana (praca, dzieci, bagaż emocjonalny), i o tym, jak bardzo jej potrzebujemy. Życie lubi pisać własne scenariusze. I czasem – tak jak w filmie – trzeba pozwolić sobie na improwizację! *** „Nie można się jej oprzeć! Zabawna, uzależniająca i cudownie romantyczna. To dokładnie taka książka, jakiej wszyscy teraz potrzebujemy. Uwielbiam każde jej słowo!” – Rosie Walsh, autorka powieści „The Love of My Life” i „Bez słowa” „Zabawny i wypełniony życzliwością romans dla prawdziwych romantycze” – Linda Holmes, autorka powieści „Evvie zaczyna od nowa” „Pozostawił mnie z uczuciami, które towarzyszą wszystkim najlepszym romansom: nadzieją i przekonaniem, że prawdziwa miłość zawsze wygrywa” – Jill Santopolo, autorka powieści „Światło, które utraciliśmy” „Zabawna, podnosząca na duchu, marzycielska… Pokochałam ją tak bardzo, że musiałam przeczytać zakończenie dwa razy – raz, by zobaczyć, co się wydarzyło, i ponownie, by się nim delektować” – KJ Dell’Antonia, autorka powieści „The Chicken Sisters” „Pokochałam tę książkę całym sercem. Jest błyskotliwa, świeża, a przy tym pełna humoru i ciepła” – Beth O’Leary, autorka powieści „Współlokatorzy” „Hallmark i Hollywood w jednym! Wspaniała, wciągająca i przejmująca lektura. Książka, którą warto się delektować!” – Abby Jimenez, autorka serii „The Friend Zone”

Nora, tego nie ma w scenariuszu

To say eighteen-year-old Farrah Higgins—or Digit—is good at math is a laughable understatement. She’s been cracking codes since childhood, and is finally at home with “her people” at MIT in Cambridge. Her talents are so off the charts that her laptop is under surveillance by both the CIA and an ecoterrorist named Jonas Furnis. So when she thoughtlessly hacks into the Department of Defense’s database, she lands in serious hot water inside and outside the law. Readers will be sad to turn the last page of this suspenseful, sassy, super smart thriller, the sequel to A Girl Named Digit.

Elisabeth Wolfe

Inspired by "The Secret, Click!" is designed to teach teens that they have the power to change their lives and manifest what they want, whether its an A in chemistry or a date to the prom.

Annabel Monaghan

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