Description

Fanfiction clashes with reality when an anonymous fic writer meets the reallife celebrity behind her stories who happens to secretly be her top reader in a romantic comedy perfect for fans of Thank You For Listening and Mr Wrong Number

By day Diana works as a line cook at her familys French caf in the Upper West Side of Manhattan juggling brunch service and finicky customers Shes happy to help at the caf but its financially in dire straits and shes not sure how much longer she can help keep things going By night she escapes into the Sam Raymond fandom penning smutty realperson fanfiction RPF about the dreamy rockstarofthemoment for thousands of readers And those readers are eating it up more than usual after a vocal injury thats sidelined Sams tour One of Dianas most avid followers the mysterious S has even sent her a series of flirtatious DMs on Tumblr

When the real Sam Raymond shows up at the Dianas caf for brunch her carefully separated worlds collide and shes gotta make the best goddamn lemon crme crpes of her life Despite her nerves the crpes are a hit and Sam keeps coming back for more soon the two strike up an easy friendship over their shared taste in music and love of NYC

But Sam has secrets of his own Hes finding it harder and harder to suppress his panic attacks with setbacks slowing his vocal recovery and threatening a potential end to his singing career The only comfort he finds is in interacting with a clever online fic writer in embarrassingly his own fandom And then he meets Diana As Sam isolates himself away from his normally chaotic life he becomes intrigued by this cute chef and her big boisterous family He cant help but spend more time at the classic French bistro they call home

As the writer and the rockstar grow closer Diana must balance her connection with S and attraction to Sam and her guilt in keeping up her pseudoSamthemed stories which she knows is her best chance to get out of the kitchen and become a professional writer Meanwhile Sam is forced to confront the anxiety threatening to break him once and for all or he risks losing both his connection with Diana and his career Will this end in OTP or disaster