girlwithmanyideas
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College student, aspiring novelist, and incurable romantic Kate Paulson came to New York believing that somewhere beneath the noise, disappointment, and impossible expectations of the city, the kind of love she writes about might actually exist. Then, she discovers Prince Charming.
The anonymous relationship columnist has built a devoted following by writing confidently about romance, honesty, and what people supposedly need from love. Kate isn't impressed. To her, his carefully packaged advice feels less like truth and more like another beautiful lie sold to people desperate enough to believe it. Determined to prove herself as a serious writer, she decides that if everyone else is willing to accept Prince Charming's version of romance, she'll be the one to challenge it, and uncover the man hiding behind the name.
That man is Noel Harley, a charming, sharp-witted Irish writer who is nothing like the romantic authority Kate expected him to be.
In person, Noel is infuriatingly perceptive, effortlessly flirtatious, and far more complicated than the persona he presents to his readers. Kate knows she should keep her distance. Instead, the more time she spends with him, the harder it becomes to separate the man from the story she came looking for, and the harder it becomes to ignore how easily he makes her question everything she thought she knew about love.
But while Kate and Noel are falling for each other in the real world, their words are pulling them apart somewhere neither of them feels quite as vulnerable: behind anonymous names.
She wants the truth about the man who writes about love. He has reasons for keeping parts of himself hidden. And somewhere between attraction, ambition, secrets, and a war of words neither expected to become personal, Kate may discover that the most dangerous story she can expose isn't Noel's. It's their own.
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