<p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(48, 48, 48, 1)">With witty banter, relatable characters, and eye-opening spice, </strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(48, 48, 48, 1)">debut novelist Rachel Lewis takes us to the small college town of Sassafrass, Mass where love is about to be in the spotlight. </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(48, 48, 48, 1)">"Yours, Unexpectedly"</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(48, 48, 48, 1)"> strikes all the right chords, blending the thrill of a first crush with the maturity of second chances.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(48, 48, 48, 1)">Bex Bardot is in the final semester of her senior year at Hawthorne University.</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(48, 48, 48, 1)"> She's so close to graduation, she can taste it. The only hitch in her plans? A missing fine arts credit in the form of Introduction to Acting, TA'd by none other than Anders Olsson - her brother's best friend and roommate, and her not-so-secret teenage crush.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(48, 48, 48, 1)">Anders Olsson has finally put some of the pieces of his life back together </strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(48, 48, 48, 1)">after a failed attempt at a Broadway career delivered him to rock bottom. He's going to therapy, he's found a way to use his ADHD to his advantage, and he's embraced a life of sobriety. The only thing with the potential to derail his perfectly rebuilt life? A run-in with Bex Bardot - his best friend's little sister and someone he's intentionally avoided since coming back to Hawthorne. </span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(48, 48, 48, 1)">Now that Bex and Anders are forced to spend more time together</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(48, 48, 48, 1)">, buried feelings are returning to the surface. Can Anders convince Bex that he's a changed man? Can Bex learn to accept the love she deserves? They'll have to trust each other if they ever want their relationship to take center stage.</span></p><p><br></p>