The Heart of the Deal

Perfect for fans of Emily Giffin and Jojo Moyes,Lindsay MacMillanΓÇÖs debut novel deftly captures the feeling of being adrift in your late twentieswith poignant commentary on female friendshipsmental healthand what happiness really looks like. Rae is in a romantic recession. The Wall Street banker is single in New York City and overwhelmed by the pressure to scramble up the corporate and romantic ladders. Feeling her biological clock tickingshe analyzes her love life like a business deal and vows to lock in a husband before her 30th birthday. The Manhattan dating app scene has as many ups and downs as the stock marketand outsourcing dates to an algorithm isnΓÇÖt exactly RaeΓÇÖs idea of romance. She considers cutting her lossesbut her friends help her stay investedboosting her spirits with ice cream and cheap wine that they share in their sixth-floor walk-up while recapping cringe-worthy dates. And then Rae meets Dustina poetic soul trapped in a business suitjust like her. She starts to hear wedding bellsbut DustinΓÇÖs struggles with depression will test their relationshipand no amount of financial modeling can project what their future will look like. Can Rae free herself from the idea she had of what thirty was supposed to look like and let love breathe on its own timeline? Or is she too conditioned to stay on the ΓÇ£right trackΓÇ¥ to follow her unpaved intuition? Moving and timelyThe Heart of the Deal is the story of one womanΓÇÖs reckoning with what success really is in a cityan industryand a relationship whose low lows continually challenge the enchantment of the high highs.