Happenstance – Bailey Tessa (2023)

A romantic comedy from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer follows an accidental relationship between three smitten men and one commitment-phobic woman. Elise Brandeis has never won a Pulitzer, and she never will while delivering sandwiches at the Gotham Times instead of working there as a reporter. Her only chance to see her byline in print is to prove to the no-nonsense managing editor that she has a nose for news, and she has just the story to win her attention. Chasing leads takes Elise to Roosevelt Island, but when the trail of clues begins to take shape, she gets literally stuck in a cable car with three strangers who could not be more different: an uptight rugby coach, a construction worker and a former adult film star she pretends not to recognize a little too well. An hour after wanting nothing more than to be rescued, Elise finds that four separate journeys have collided in an intense and meaningful way. Disentangling their lives suddenly seems more impossible than winning that Pulitzer, especially when three loners decide to work together to win her over forever.