THANK YOU, NEXT

Alex Turner sets out to uncover why all her exes find true love right after dating her and reunites with her first love in the process.

Divorce attorney Alex is uninterested in marriage. But when she sees her most recent ex and his new fiancee on reality TV picking out a wedding dress, she looks up her other exes and notices a troubling trend—they all seriously committed to the person they dated after her. Wanting to know why, Alex decides to track them down and ask. When Alex’s old friend Will Harkness, a celebrity chef, finds out about this harebrained scheme, his protective instincts kick in and he insists on coming along. Alex and Will have spent their adult lives mostly avoiding each other, ever since Will rejected Alex when they were teenagers. They’ve remained tied to each other, though, through their mutual love for Lexi, a legendary jazz musician who happens to be Alex’s grandmother and was once briefly married to Will’s father. Alex and Will both had tumultuous relationships with their parents, but Lexi was their rock. Now, buried feelings are springing up between Alex and Will, but with so much history and drama between them, they have to decide if it’s worth taking a risk on love. The story takes a while to find its groove, but readers who stick with it will be rewarded with Christopher’s trademark brash, honest humor and an enticing, angst-y, push-pull romance as the leads learn to be more vulnerable, trusting, and communicative.

A rocky start, but humor and heart win in the end.