How to End a Love Story

A swoony, angsty and addictive romance about two people linked by a shared tragedy who are thrown together years later, only to discover a spark between them that complicates everything. For fans of: second chance romance, books that make you sob and star-crossed lovers with lots of spice.

Helen Zhang is the bestselling author who can't write her own happy-ever-after.
Grant Shepard is the screenwriter with the movie-star looks who can't afford his therapist.

When the two of them are put together to adapt Helen's books for television, it should be a dream come true. Helen can start a new life in Hollywood. Grant can pay his mortgage.

Only, Grant Shepard is the last person that Helen wanted to see again. She's never forgiven him for what happened thirteen years ago. So no one is more surprised than her when sparks begin to fly between them in the writers' room.

Their history is messy. Their attraction is inescapable. And soon, they're both in too deep . . .

This wasn't meant to be a love story.
But aren't the best endings the ones you never saw coming?

Review

A sharp, sexy debut. Fans of Emily Henry and Colleen Hoover will love Yulin Kuang's wistful second-chance romance ― Elissa Sussman, bestselling author of Funny You Should Ask

Everything you need in a romance novel: Complex characters, hilariously witty banter, and that spice level? Off the charts! ― Colleen Oakley, USA Today bestselling author of The Mostly

I was hooked on the very first page of How to End a Love Story, the absurdly delicious debut from Yulin Kuang. The chemistry between Helen and Grant is pure magic, as is Yulin's gorgeous writing ― Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

An utterly compelling debut complete with romance secret sauce . . . emotional, relatable and binge-worthy ― Tessa Bailey, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

Impossibly tender, funny, sexy, and heart-wrenching, How to End a Love Story is a gorgeously original romance - and so much more - that will leave you laughing, sobbing, and desperately wishing that it would never end. This is the kind of glorious gut-punch of a book that you'll want to share with all your friends, and reread over and over ― Lana Harper, New York Times Bestselling Author

A smart, sexy, and powerful page-turner. The insider's look at Hollywood is just as fascinating as the complicated characters who work in the writers room. I couldn't put this book down ― Jill Santopolo

Two complicated people in an impossibly complicated situation, drawn to each other in spite of a deeply complicated past: How to End a Love Story is moving, compelling, and heart-flutteringly sexy ― Kate Clayborn

Yulin Kuang has a wonderful voice, poignant and funny, she grabbed me from the first paragraph ― Jill Shalvis

About the Author

Yulin Kuang is a screenwriter and director. She was once fired from a Hallmark movie for being 'too hip for Hallmark' and is the adapting screenwriter of Emily Henry's People We Meet On Vacation, as well as the writer/director of the forthcoming Beach Read feature film for 20th Century Studios. She lives and writes in Pasadena, California.