For the first printing only! This paperback features stenciled sprayed edges while supplies last. Gilmore Girls meets Jenny Han in this autumnal teen rom-com about a city girl stuck in a quaint small town who must confront her future and her old flame while the town prepares for an annual fall festival. Ellis has a plan: spend her senior fall prepping her application for Columbia,get into their journalism programand set the foundation for a respectable career. So when her parents announce that not only are they separatingbut Ellis has to move with her mom from New York City to Bramble FallsConnecticutto live with her aunt and cousinit couldn’t come at a worse time. From past summers spent in ConnecticutEllis knows Bramble Falls is idyllic and charming. But it also seems to be full of distractions. There’s local barista Cooper BarnettEllis’s one-time best friend and first kiss who now wants nothing to do with Ellis. And then there’s the Falling Leaves Festivala local autumnal celebration run by Ellis’s aunt where people from all over come to see Bramble Falls’s beautiful foliage. The house is stuffed with decorationsand every conversation seems to center around the festival. Dragged to every oh-so-charming event from apple picking to pumpkin carvingEllis can’t stop bumping into Cooper…or falling for the quaint town and its quirky residents. As her return to Manhattan gets repeatedly delayedEllis finds herself caught between two very different places—and the futures they represent.