A beautiful, amazing, nightmarish disaster. After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week…in front of those who know you best?'īefore you run to preorder Happy Place (and maybe even add Emily's other books to your TBR), don’t miss out on an exclusive excerpt, below! It’s a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. They can’t stand to break their friends’ hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place.

Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blissful week they leave behind their daily lives have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. And still haven’t told their best friends. Except, now-for reasons they’re still not discussing-they don’t. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls.

Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play 'A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. If you're feeling all the angst just from that, then get ready because the official description from Berkley will have you even more excited:

But will they also say goodbye to each other too? As they share a room, avoid all of their feelings for each other, and keep a big secret from their closest friends, things get especially heated when they remember they'll have say goodbye to the Maine paradise shortly. The story follows a former couple who have to spend an entire week together on vacation. While most of us won't ever be in that wild position, Emily Henry is allowing us to see it all unfold in her latest book, Happy Place, which comes out on April 25, 2023. If you have any of her other books on your TBR right now, you're going to want to catch up on them ASAP as she gets ready to release her next novel that'll make you want to book a summer vacation with your BFFs and maybe even your ex-fiancé (yes, really). For the last couple of years, Emily Henry has been the queen of romance novels, and that is not changing any time soon.

Happy Place by Emily Henry