Every Ordinary Thing - by Jessica Joyce (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Longtime friends become temporary roommates (with steamy benefits) while they collaborate on a project that could change everything, in the newest romance from the bestselling author of The Ex Vows.

Summer Beckett is as temporary as the season she's named after. While she's accepted that she's never the chosen one in her personal life, she's determined to get there in her career as a video producer. When a family friend offers up a high-profile freelance gig, she's ecstatic.

That is, until the client is revealed: Dylan Parker, Major League Baseball's most charming pitcher, her brother's best friend...and the man she nearly kissed two years ago, until she realized nothing permanent would come from it. She's avoided him since, but now he's insisting she's the only person he trusts with this project, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that will put her work in front of a massive audience. She has no choice but to sign on, even if doing so puts her in unbearable proximity to Dylan for a month, nearly the exact circumstances that almost crushed her heart last time.

Summer knows their situation is temporary, as are the benefits they add to their friendship when their connection inevitably heats up while they're staying together at his aunt's house. But Dylan keeps pulling her closer, and as the end of their time together approaches, she has to decide if she's brave enough to believe they can have something extraordinary...and lasting.

Review Quotes

"Every Ordinary Thing is another stunning, sparkling romance from Jessica Joyce. With every new novel, she proves why she's a force to be reckoned with. Delicate, tender, and deliciously sexy, I loved every single moment of Summer and Dylan. I wished this book lasted forever."--#1 New York Times bestselling author B.K. Borison

"Tender, sexy, and so intimate it almost hurts, Every Ordinary Thing is Jessica Joyce at her absolute best. Discovering Dylan through Summer's lens is both a gift to readers and a study in all the tiny moments that make us fall in love."--USA Today bestselling author Lauren Okie

"There's no better feeling than cracking open a new Jessica Joyce novel. In her worlds, with her characters, amidst a beautifully unfurling love story, I always find myself feeling more connected to my own life. Summer and Dylan's romance is at once a delicacy and relatably humble, rife with flirting, fervent encouragement, and tiny moments of noticing each other that feel larger than life. We are so lucky that Jessica chooses to write books like this one. The romance literary canon--the world, in fact--is a better place now that Every Ordinary Thing is in it."--Clare Gilmore, USA Today bestselling author of Never Over

"Jessica Joyce is in a league of her own. Every Ordinary Thing is the romance of my dreams. Filled to the brim with tender vulnerability, dreamy romance, and a deep exploration of love in all its forms, this book is one I will revisit again and again. I'll read anything she writes."--Peyton Corinne, USA Today bestselling author of Undone

"Jessica Joyce is a bard of emotion; she is preternaturally skilled at writing fallible, relatable, deeply human characters. She uses her talent to maximum effect in Every Ordinary Thing, her most intimate character-study-disguised-as-a-love-story yet. The delicate care she takes with Summer and Dylan's wounds makes their coming together so tender, so satisfying and so real."-- Lavanya Lakshmi, author of Leave and Come Back

About the Author

Jessica Joyce is the bestselling author of relatable, character-driven contemporary romance stories that feature as much yearning as she can stuff into them. When she's not working on a new book, you can find her making a playlist, watching Sleepless in Seattle and the 2005 version of Pride & Prejudice on repeat, or curled up with a book she didn't have to write.