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    "title": "The Last Word",
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    "description": "\"Birchall's effervescent novel combines an engaging enemies-to-lovers story line with a vibrant London setting.\" \u2013\u2013 Shelf Awareness\n\nA young journalist puts her career\u2013\u2013and her heart\u2013\u2013on the line when her former work nemesis is hired in her newsroom, for fans of The Hating Game and Beach Read .\n\nHarper Jenkins is at the top of her game. A brilliant, determined journalist with a well-known knack for getting tight-lipped Hollywood stars to open up to her, Harper loves her job as Celebrity Editor at a newspaper\u2019s glossy weekend magazine and has the best contacts in the business.\n\nBut when her awful boss hires talented reporter Ryan to be the new Features Editor, Harper is furious. Because the two have met a decade ago, they were interns at the same publication, where they fell into a whirlwind romance\u2026until Ryan betrayed Harper, and they never spoke again.\n\nThrown together in a busy newsroom, their dynamic is a disaster from the start. They can\u2019t agree on anything and bicker constantly\u2015Ryan can\u2019t bear how chaotic and messy Harper is; Harper finds Ryan\u2019s condescending nature infuriating. They clash over who\u2019s writing what article, and fight over who\u2019s going to which event.\n\nYet as they\u2019re forced to spend more and more time together, Harper realizes she may have misjudged Ryan and can\u2019t help but feel a spark growing between them. Long buried feelings start to resurface and, when they\u2019re thrown together on a romantic press trip abroad, their chemistry comes to a head.\n\nBut all is fair in love and magazines, and with the news that layoffs across the department are imminent, Harper is left to who will get the last word?",
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