Laura Starkey

Two broken hearts. Four years apart. One chance to choose again. Hannah has built her dream career, planning other people's happy ever afters - with no hope of her own. Not since that day four years ago; the one she never talks about. Jude is getting on a plane for the first time in four years. He's not happy about it, but at least he'll be back in Sydney before too long - safe from the things he'd prefer to forget. But when Hannah's twin and Jude's brother make a shock announcement, and appoint a certain wedding planner, the summer stretching ahead of them suddenly looks a whole lot different... As they're thrown back together, is it possible that first love could get a second chance? From bestselling author of The Spare Room comes this summer's must-read second-chance romance, with characters you won't want to leave. Smart, sizzling and funny, All You Had To Do Was Stay is perfect for fans of Emily Henry, Laura Wood and Portia MacIntosh.

All's fair in love and screenplays... She's just a script consultant, standing in front of a director, asking him to step back and let her do her job... Jess should have known better than to fall for the English department's silver fox. Now she's left picking up the pieces after catching him cheating with a student and stealing the credit for her research paper. Desperate for a fresh start, she accepts a job as a script consultant on a new TV adaptation of the Regency novel, Anne of Arden - no one knows Georgiana Scott's work better than she does. Swapping the world of academia for the glamour of TV is supposed to be her big comeback. But standing in her way is Nathan Lambert, a famous director on a mission to sabotage his unfaithful ex-wife's latest work project. As the two knock heads over every detail of the script, sparks fly, tempers flare, and their unexpected chemistry is anything but scripted. In a world where the lines between reality and fiction blur, can Jess and Nathan rewrite their own happy ending?