It's been five years since America met and fell in love with Hannah Brown. First introduced as a contestant on Colton Underwood'sseason of before becoming the lead on , she's now helping two people on their own journey — literally — to find love in her debut novel,
The book follows the romance between type-A Emma Townsend and “walking red flag” Finn Hughes, two former high school rivals who have a long history of
getting together but never following through for one reason or another. When the pair is sent on a road trip to track down a runaway bride, they can’t help but revisit their past and the multitude of obstacles that have gotten in the way.
It marks Brown’s first foray into fiction. She published a memoir,, in 2021.
“It made sense for me to tell my story [then], because that's what people wanted more at that time,” she told Yahoo Entertainment.
But as time went by, she felt ready to make the transition and try her hand at writing fiction. “I [didn’t want] to be seen as one-dimensional, like someone who comes on your screen just to make you laugh or to be ‘relatable,’” she explained, adding that over the past few years, “I've been showing different sides of myself and more of what I'm into.”
Brown said the idea of writing a novel was intimidating, not only because she had many other projects in the works but also with regard to the complicated logistics baked into the book’s central premise.
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