The Heart of the Deal

A Novel

Lindsay MacMillan

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Crooked Lane Books
21 June 2022

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Jojo Moyes, this debut novel deftly captures the feeling of being adrift in your late twenties.

With poignant commentary on female friendships, mental health, and what happiness really looks like, The Heart of the Deal is a ""thoughtful and emotional"" (Farrah Rochon, USA Today bestselling author) romance.

Perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Jojo Moyes, this debut novel deftly captures the feeling of being adrift in your late twenties.

With poignant commentary on female friendships, mental health, and what happiness really looks like, The Heart of the Deal is a ""thoughtful and emotional"" (Farrah Rochon, USA Today bestselling author) romance.

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 ticking, she 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 market, and outsourcing dates to an algorithm isn't exactly Rae's idea of romance. She considers cutting her losses, but her friends help her stay invested, boosting 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 Dustin, a poetic soul trapped in a business suit, just like her. She starts to hear wedding bells, but Dustin's struggles with depression will test their relationship, and 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 ""right track"" to follow her unpaved intuition?

Moving and timely, The Heart of the Deal is the story of one woman's reckoning with what success really is in a city, an industry, and a relationship whose low lows continually challenge the enchantment of the high highs.

By: Lindsay MacMillan
Imprint: Crooked Lane Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 139mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9781639100101
ISBN 10: 1639100105
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 21 June 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lindsay MacMillan is a writer, businesswoman, and hopelessly hopeful romantic. After growing up in Michigan in the land of cows, cornfields, and kindness, she graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College. She was formerly a vice president at Goldman Sachs and has worked in both New York City and London. The Heart of the Deal is her first published novel, and she shares unfiltered poetry and prose on Instagram (@lindsaymacwriting).

Reviews for The Heart of the Deal: A Novel

Praise for The Heart of the Deal: An analytic and emotional exploration of love, mental health issues, and what it means to give someone your heart. -Kirkus Thoughtful and emotional. The Heart of the Deal lays bare the difficulties of balancing friendships, career goals, and romantic relationships while traveling the road to true happiness. It pulled at every single one of my heartstrings. -Farrah Rochon, USA Today bestselling author of The Dating Playbook