Certified Hot Mess

Maggie Conners is a certified hot mess. After the sudden, devastating loss of her beloved father, Maggie escapes to New York City, hoping to outrun her grief and pursue a career in marketing. But instead of finding success, she burns through her savings paying rent, spirals into utter chaos after a break up, and crashes hard. Now completely defeated and broke as hell ( student loans), Maggie has no choice but to return to her small-town Pennsylvania roots and move in with Jamie Watts, her childhood best friend and landscape architect at their alma mater, who’s still mourning the loss of his college girlfriend. As Maggie struggles to rebuild her life into something she’s proud of—navigating a minimum-wage job, reconnecting with old so-called friends, and dealing with her overbearing mother—she can’t shake the dream of returning to New York and picking up where she left off. But the more time she spends with Jamie, the more she realizes that their deep history and undeniable chemistry are making her question everything. Is her childhood dream worth sacrificing something real with Jamie, who’s happily planted in Pennsylvania? Maggie must decide whether to chase her career in the city or stay and build a future with Jamie. With love and her career on the line, she’ll have to choose between the life she thought she wanted and the one she never saw coming.