How to Align the Stars (paperback)

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She’s an astronomy professor at a small college in wine country. He’s the annoying librarian she loves to hate . . .

A modern retelling of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, the original enemies-to-lovers romcom.

Beatrice works at a small college, spending an inordinate amount of time avoiding Ben, a librarian she believes wronged her when they were students. Their rapid-fire exchanges could almost be mistaken for chemistry, if he hadn’t done that unspeakable thing so many years ago. . .

Her younger cousin Heron is a wistful senior student on the same campus. The opposite of Beatrice, she is a hopeless romantic.

After Heron’s boyfriend proposes on a magical night at her father’s winery, Bea is worried her younger cousin is making a mistake. Heron responds to Bea’s criticism with a matchmaking scheme designed to show Bea the upside of romance.

Their world comes crashing down during a campus scandal involving the campus fraternity brothers. Each finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew about the best course for the future. Eventually, each woman must make a choice: Bea between the comfortable role of merry spinster or a fulfilling partnership; Heron between marriage or reaching for a new dream.

Publisher’s Weekly calls Amy Dressler’s new novel a “sparkling debut.”