Georgie Mulcahy loses her job as a personal assistant to a famed screenwriter and director in the movie industry when her boss decides to dial it back and live a quieter life. Georgie moves back temporarily to her parents' home in small town Virginia, where her best friend Bel has moved with her husband as they await the birth of their first child. Georgie's parents are out of town, so Georgie will stay at their rather disorganized home and take care of their plants until their return. But her parents forgot that they had already found someone to watch the house before they knew Georgie was coming, so when Levi shows up, it makes for an awkward situation.
Levi is a gruff guy, a few years older than Georgie, a well-known troublemaker in the town in his teen years, who is estranged from his family. It's clear that Georgie and Levi are attracted to each other, but their attempts to communicate are often misunderstood, usually due to Levi's tumultuous past. It seems that they might eventually get together, but there is a lot to work through. Meanwhile, Georgie is still trying to find herself, and is using a "friend fic" book that she and Bel had written together just before they started high school, as a template for how to go back and redo the past.
After a bit of a slow intro, I found this to be a fast book filled with relationship nuances, while some of the characters attempt to answer the question of how to fill the blank spaces inside ourselves.
