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Let Love Do the Rest
Paperback
Publisher: Janet Betty
Published: Feb 20 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Nora Chen makes better coffee than she makes life decisions - and she knows it.
At twenty-nine, she's a barista in a sleepy North Carolina coastal town with a published novel that sold fewer copies than she can bear to count and a second manuscript that's going nowhere fast. She's talented. She knows that too. What she doesn't know is how to trust her own voice long enough to prove it.
Then Vivienne Hale walks into her café.
Vivienne is a legend - twenty million books sold, a devoted global readership, and a literary reputation built over three decades. She's also a woman who hasn't written a single word since her husband died three years ago. She's moved to Beaufort to disappear. Instead, she overhears Nora saying something about her books that no one else has had the courage to say.
What follows is an unlikely arrangement: Nora will help Vivienne write her final novel. No credit. No recognition. Just the work, a sunroom overlooking the marsh, and a deadline that's already overdue.
But the arrangement comes with a complication - Vivienne's son, Elliot. He's her literary agent, he's protective to a fault, and he's the kind of man who expresses love through logistics and says your name like he's picking it up with both hands. He's also the last person Nora should be falling for while ghostwriting his mother's book under an NDA she can't afford to break.
As the pages pile up and the deadline closes in, Nora finds herself caught between the woman who's teaching her what it means to be a writer and the man who's showing her what it means to be seen - and the growing fear that when the book is finished, she'll have poured her best work into someone else's story and left nothing that carries her own name.
A warm, witty, and deeply emotional story about creative courage, unlikely mentorship, and the terrifying, wonderful act of letting love write the ending you never planned.
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