Beach Read by Emily Henry
A woman writer goes out to a beach town to occupy her deceased father's old house and escape her writer's block. A male writer is also in the town. They had been in college together, and were attracted to each other but thought the other one didn't like them. They fall for each other after a bunch of ups and downs. They also try to write books in each other's style. They also find out more of each other's backstory, including his in-process divorce and her dad's affair while her mom had cancer treatment. IT is a very typical light romantic comedy.
A literary agent releases she is the "ex-girlfriend" from romance novels. She is the uptight city-slicker girlfriend that the man dumps to find true love in the country. She is down after it just happens to her. Her married little sister, pregnant with a third child takes her on a retreat to small-town North Carolina to help recover. The town happens to be the setting for one of her author's popular novels. It also happens to be the hometown of an editor she knows. She falls in love with him, but he wants to stay to help family in the small town. She also worries that her sister may be going through challenges with her marriage. She has always been protective of her sister and has been willing to sacrifice her work to help her little sister. It turns out her sister planned on moving out of the city and wants to let big sister live her life. In the end the characters grow and everything does work out (after going through a few twists.) It is a nice "fulfilling" ending, but there seem to be way to many connections to a random middle-of-nowhere town.