Things We Never Got Over

Genre

Romance & Contemporary Relationships

Publisher

That's What She Said Publishing (self-published; later Bloom Books/Sourcebooks)

Publication year

2022

ISBN

9781945631832

Runaway bride Naomi arrives in a small North Carolina town to rescue her chaotic twin, and instead finds herself stranded with a surly local barber, Knox, and a child who needs her. Lucy Score's small-town romance became a self-published phenomenon. A New York Times bestseller, it has sold over...

Naomi flees her own wedding to bail out her troublemaking identical twin in the sleepy town of Knockemout, and within a day she has been robbed, saddled with a niece she did not know existed, and thrown together with Knox, a bearded, bad-tempered local barber who wants nothing to do with commitment. Lucy Score's grumpy-sunshine romance leans hard into small-town comfort: nosy neighbors, slow-burning heat, found family and a plot that widens into light suspense. It makes no literary pretensions - the appeal is pure immersive escapism, a big, bingeable book you sink into for a weekend - and on those terms it is enormously satisfying, which is why it became a self-published juggernaut. Score writes banter and yearning that keep the pages turning across its generous length, and the ensemble town is as much a draw as the couple. For readers who love cozy, steamy, small-town series romance with a grumpy hero and a resilient heroine, this BookTok phenomenon - soon a television series - is a definitive comfort read.