Centers around January Andrews, a romance writer, and Augustus Everett, who pens literary fiction – two authors who seemingly have nothing in common, apart from their mutual distaste for each other's writing. They also happen to be summer neighbors in adjacent beach houses, each grappling with writer’s block. They challenge each other to swap genres for the summer, plunging January into the world of tragic prose and Gus into the realm of happily-ever-afters.

The first book in the Blood and Ash series, introducing readers to a world of gods, curses, and forbidden love. The story revolves around Poppy, the Maiden, who is chosen from birth to fulfill a divine role that requires her to live a life of solitude and sacrifice, awaiting the day of her Ascension. Her world, however, is upended by the arrival of Hawke, a charming and enigmatic Royal Guard.