Take Two, Birdie Maxwell

Hollywood’s biggest rom-com star tries to revamp her damaged reputation by following a lead on an anonymous lost love in the new romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch.
 
Birdie Robinson thought she’d gotten everything she wanted out of life: fame, adoration and an A-list career as Hollywood’s most beloved ingenue. But after an on-set public feud goes viral and the public turns against her, she’s forced to go into hiding in the one place where no one would think to find her: her childhood home, with her whole family gathered together for the holidays. Moored in her bedroom somewhere between self-pity and self-destruction, she finds an anonymous love letter from a former boyfriend and begrudgingly sets out to find the long-gone ex. If she stumbles into some personal enlightenment while helping her career, that’s a cherry on top.

Elliot O’Brien, star reporter, believes firmly in facts, and that meant-to-bes are the realm of fiction. And since he knows that life isn’t an actual rom-com, he’s spent two decades dodging his long-simmering feelings for his twin sister’s best friend, Birdie. But with his journalistic career cratering, he can’t rebuff his editor’s demand that he chronicle Birdie's journey to solving the love letter mystery.
 
As they drive through the West Coast in an RV, Birdie and Elliot retrace her romantic history and come face to face with their own romantic missteps, all while grappling with whether or not happy endings are found only on the big screen—or whether their own happier ever after could be closer than they both ever imagined.