Book ~ "The Rom-Commers" (2024) Katherine Center

From Goodreads ~ She’s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own?

Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She’s spent her life studying, obsessing over and writing romantic comedies - good ones! That win contests! But she’s also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates - The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god! - it’s a break too big to pass up.

Emma’s younger sister steps in for caretaking duties and Emma moves to L.A. for six weeks for the writing gig of a lifetime. But what is it they say? Don’t meet your heroes? Charlie Yates doesn’t want to write with anyone - much less “a failed, nobody screenwriter.” Worse, the romantic comedy he’s written is so terrible it might actually bring on the apocalypse. Plus! He doesn’t even care about the script - it’s just a means to get a different one green-lit. Oh, and he thinks love is an emotional Ponzi scheme.

But Emma’s not going down without a fight. She will stand up for herself and for rom-coms and for love itself. She will convince him that love stories matter - even if she has to kiss him senseless to do it. But ... what if that kiss is accidentally amazing? What if real life turns out to be so much ... more real than fiction? What if the love story they’re writing breaks all Emma’s rules - and comes true?

Emma has is a writer. She would like to be a screenwriter but because of an accident ten years ago, her father needs constant care. She gives up her dreams to take care of her father and so her younger sister can have the life she wants. Her high school friend, Logan, presents her with the opportunity to rewrite a terrible movie script with her idol, Charlie Yates. That means spending six weeks in LA and her sister agrees to take care of their father. 

When Emma arrives in LA, she discovers that Charlie has no idea what's going on and begrudgingly takes her on. Charlie isn't serious about the movie script and is only working on it so he can get another movie made so Emma pushes him to make it a better script. As she starts breaking him down, they become friends and Emma starts having feelings for him but Charlie keeps pushing her away and saying nasty things behind her back.

I thought this story was okay and predictable. It is written in first person perspective in Emma's voice as if she is talking to you and telling you what's going on. I wasn't seeing a lot of spark between Emma and Charlie so I don't know how they ended up together.