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Young Adult Romance

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Once Upon A Road Trip

Finalist in the 2022 #PitchMe competition!

A YA sweet summer road trip romance with a friends-to-lovers trope, a love triangle with the FMC’s celebrity cousin, and mental health representation.

When best friend Rob kisses Tiff, she doesn’t mean to throw up on him and then run away. The kiss caught her off guard, triggering her first-ever anxiety attack. Unfortunately, after the kiss fiasco, Rob doesn't seem to want anything to do with Tiff.

 

After a lonely summer, a pre-college road trip brings the ex-best friends back together. Tiff tries to tell herself that she’s over Rob, but come on. There’s got to be a reason (other than vomit) that he ended their friendship, and if she can control her anxiety long enough to create the right moment, she can find out why. Maybe even win him back in the process. But when Tiff’s social media-famous cousin crashes the trip and sets her sights on Rob, will Tiff risk rejection (and another attack) to tell Rob how she feels, or will she let her anxiety sentence her to life in the friendzone?

Status: Complete, unpublished

Genre: YA romance

Spice Level: sweet/no-spice/clean

Tropes: road trip, friends-to-lovers, anxiety rep, mental health rep, love triangle, beta male, cinnamon roll male main character, summer romance

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