Brynn and Sebastian Hate Each Other: A Love Story

Turner (The Do-Over) charms in a squeaky clean contemporary driven by a battle of wits between journalists. After morning show host Brynn Cornell is caught disparaging her tiny Colorado hometown of Adelaide Springs on a hot mic, she must do damage control before the powers that be capitulate to those calling for her firing on social media. Her solution: grab a cameraman and head back to Adelaide Springs more than two decades after she left to make nice with the town’s citizens. It just so happens that Sebastian Sudworth, an internationally renowned journalist who disappeared from the public eye for mysterious reasons (later revealed as a mental health emergency), retired to Adelaide Springs. After the incensed town council agrees to let Brynn visit and film an apology, they assign Sebastian to supervise her. When the pair first meet they do, in fact, hate each other, but their animosity belies a different kind of heat. Then a local crisis changes the course of both Brynn and Sebastian’s journalistic careers—and brings them closer together. In addition to the appealing and endearingly flawed protagonists, Turner delivers a strong supporting cast, especially cameraman Orly Hill and generous town mayor Doc Atwater. Readers will long for a quick return to Adelaide Springs and its salt-of-the-earth citizens. (Sept.)