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Summer in the city : a novel / Alex Aster.

Aster, Alex, (author.).

Summary:

"Twenty-seven-year-old screenwriter Elle has the chance of a lifetime to write a big-budget movie set in New York City. The only problem? She's had writer's block for months, and her screenplay is due at the end of the summer. In a desperate attempt to get inspiration, Elle ends up back in the city she swore she would never return to, in an apartment she could never afford (floor-to-ceiling windows, skyline views, and a new coffee shop to haunt included). It's the perfect place to write her screenplay... until she realizes her new neighbor is tech "Billionaire Bachelor" Parker Warren, her stairwell hookup from two years ago. It's been a lovers-to-enemies situation ever since. When seeing him again turns into a full night of hate-fueled writing, Elle realizes her enemy/twisted muse might just be the key to finishing her screenplay... if she can stand being around her polar opposite. She writes anonymously, and he's on the cover of every business magazine. He frequents fancy red-carpeted events, and she doesn't like leaving her emotional support five-block radius. One summer. One wall apart. He needs to fake a buzzy relationship during his company's precarious acquisition. She needs to write a movie around a list of NYC locations. Both need a break from their unrelenting schedules, and a chance to rediscover the skyscraper-glimmering, pizza-crusted, sunlit charms of the city. Summers always end, and so will this agreement. It's all pretend. Promise. Until it isn't"-- Inside jacket flap.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063411661
  • ISBN: 0063411660
  • ISBN: 9780063445802
  • ISBN: 0063445808
  • Physical Description: 294 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, [2025]
Subject: Women screenwriters > Fiction.
Writer's block > Fiction.
Billionaires > Fiction.
Celebrities > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Summer > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Genre: Romance fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 2 of 32 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 0 of 3 copies available at Onslow County Public Library. (Show)

Holds

  • 44 current holds with 32 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lenoir Library F ASTER Alex (Text) 50669013212056 Adult New Fiction Checked out 05/16/2025
Margaret and James Harper, Jr. Library FIC AST (Text) 31421621465161 Adult New Fiction Checked out 05/01/2025
Mauney Memorial Library F AST (Text) 26280862104534 Adult New Fiction Checked out 05/10/2025
Newport F ASTER (Text) 34208900246694 Adult New Fiction Checked out 05/15/2025
North Regional Library F ASTER (Text) 31781069101234 Adult Fiction In process -
Pack Memorial Library F AST (Text) 0020660454826 Adult New Fiction Checked out 05/08/2025
Pink Hill Public Library ASTER (Text) 39149008437469 Adult Fiction Checked out 05/05/2025
Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield FIC Aster (Text) 38955500178497 Adult New Fiction Checked out 05/05/2025
Southern Branch F ASTER Alex (Text) 50669012955705 Adult New Fiction On holds shelf -
Southwest Brunswick Library FIC AST (Text) 31427000667079 Adult New Fiction Checked out 05/08/2025