I read this courtesy Sourcebooks and NetGalley. This was an unexpected delight. It’s a romcom with serious themes and more! Nadine is an obituary editor who makes a mistake in jumping the gun and running reclusive author Dot Voline’s obit while she’s alive—and it’s an embarrassing situation for both Nadine and her newspaper. But there’s an upside—sort of—to the kerfuffle: there’s a scandal attached to the author’s first book, something that’s never been brought out into the open. Intrigued, Nadine goes to apologize to Voline, only to run into her old college frenemy and rival, Wesley, who works for a rival newspaper and after the answers to the same story. Dot Voline won’t talk to them at first, but changes her mind, only to actually die. Nadine and Wes are told, however, that they will be allowed free rein of the massive, quirky mansion for three weeks to see if they can find their answer, but only if they work together. This charming story is more than a simple romance in that it combines enemies-to-lovers, family issues (with both Nadine and Wes), a mystery to be solved, and careers in trouble. Well worth the read and reread. 

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