02269cam a2200313 i 4500 489786476 TxAuBib 20210226120000.0 201127s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062982834 hardcover $17.99 0062982834 hardcover $17.99 (OCoLC)1224591675 TxAuBib rda Bryant, Elise, (Elise M.) Happily ever afters / Elise Bryant. First edition. New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2021. 378 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. She's rarely seen herself reflected in the pages of the romance novels she loves. The only place she's a true leading lady is in her own writing--in the swoony love stories she shares only with Caroline, her best friend and #1 devoted reader. When Tessa is accepted into the creative writing program of a prestigious art school, she's excited to finally let her stories shine. But when she goes to her first workshop, the words are just...gone. Fortunately, Caroline has a solution: Tessa just needs to find some inspiration in a real-life love story of her own. And she's ready with a list of romance novel-inspired steps to a happily ever after. Nico, the brooding artist who looks like he walked out of one of Tessa's stories, is cast as the perfect Prince Charming. But as Tessa checks each item off Caroline's list, she gets further and further away from herself. She risks losing everything she cares about--including the surprising bond she develops with sweet Sam, who lives across the street. She's well on her way to having her own real-life love story, but is it the one she wants, after all? 20210226. Teenage girls Fiction. Authorship Technique Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Young adult fiction. Romance fiction.