HAPPY ENDING

BEACH READ meets EMILY IN PARIS in this fresh and poignant romantic comedy.

Twenty-six-year-old one-hit-wonder novelist Rosie Watkins wants to get one thing straight: she is not running away. Has she sub-let her apartment in New York City? Yes. Has she deleted her social media so that no one besides her family knows what she’s doing? Yes. Has she booked a one-way ticket to London? Also, yes. But that does not mean she’s running away. She just needs… something new.

Hence, London. Maybe once she’s there, she’ll finally be able to get over that traumatic break-up and move on with her life. Rosie quickly finds her footing with some new friends: magnetic Tara who might be secretly in love with her friend, Pat; Saoirse, a serial dater who doesn’t believe in love and Deepti, who’s navigating a career crisis that could change the course of her life. They all welcome Rosie with open arms — all except Gamble: moody, arrogant, full-of-himself Gamble, who just happens to think that Rosie is an “entitled, annoying, energetic American.” He also just happens to be Tara's twin brother — tall, dark, tattooed, super hot, and definitely off-limits.

But the more settled Rosie becomes in London, the more her past continues to haunt her…What exactly is she hiding? Just how bad was that break-up back in the city? And can don't-even-go-there Gamble be that someone to help her move on?

On submission: October 2023

Agent: Kate Burke