#1ย New York Timesย bestselling author ofย It Ends With Usย writes a free novella about the search for happily ever after.
A chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other. But this love has conditions: they agree it will only last one hour and it will only be make-believe.
When their hour is up and the girl rushes off like Cinderella, Daniel tries to convince himself that what happened between them only seemed perfect because they wereย pretendingย it was perfect. Moments like that with girls like her donโt happen outside of fairytales.
One year and one bad relationship later, his disbelief in insta-love is stripped away the day he meets Six: a girl with a strange name and an even stranger personality. But Daniel soon realizes that fairytales donโt exist, and unfortunately for Daniel, finding Cinderella doesnโt guarantee their happily ever afterโฆit only further threatens it.