A film-ready rom-com about finding love when you least expect it. --Elle My favorite romantic book of recent memory. --Emma Straub The delightful sexy queer rom-com of the summer . . . [with] all the makings of a Nora Ephron classic. --Vogue *One of NPR s Best Books of 2018* *One of Washington Post s 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2018* From the acclaimed author of The Assistants comes a delightful romantic comedy about falling in love--and finding yourself--in the heart of New York City. When it comes to Cassidy Katie can t think straight. Katie Daniels a twenty-eight-year-old Kentucky transplant with a strong set of traditional values has just been dumped by her fiancé when she finds herself seated across a negotiating table from native New Yorker Cassidy Price a sexy self-assured woman wearing a man s suit. While at first Katie doesn t know what to think a chance meeting later that night leads them both to the Metropolis a dimly lit lesbian dive bar that serves as Cassidy s second home. The night offers straight-laced Katie a glimpse into a wild yet fiercely tight-knit community one in which barrooms may as well be bedrooms and loyal friends fill in the spaces absent families leave behind. And in Katie Cassidy finds a chance to open her heart in new ways. Soon their undeniable chemistry will push each woman to confront what she thinks she deserves--and what it is she truly wants.