By the Book: A Meant To Be Novel

Description

From New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory comes By the Book, the second novel in the Meant to Be collection, a contemporary romance inspired by a beloved classic fairy tale.

Isabelle is twenty-five, still living at home and working as an editorial assistant at a publishing house where she feels overworked, underpaid and increasingly unsure of where her career is heading. As one of the few Black employees at the company, she is constantly weighing when to speak up and when to hold back.

When Izzy overhears her boss complaining about a high-profile author who has failed to deliver his long-awaited manuscript, she sees an opportunity to prove herself and finally move forward in her career.

Her assignment takes her to Beau Towers’s Santa Barbara mansion, where a quick motivational visit turns out to be far more complicated than expected. Beau is withdrawn, difficult to read and struggling with his own sense of direction.

As Izzy encourages him to return to his writing, Beau begins opening up, and the two discover they have more in common than either expected. With the deadline approaching, their working relationship slowly develops into something neither of them planned.

By the Book is a contemporary romance about ambition, acceptance and learning that sometimes understanding another person means looking beyond what appears on the surface.