They All Fall in Love at the End

Cat St. Clair is ready for her messy love triangle era now that sheâs in an open relationship. But she didnât foresee a forbidden love triangle with the only two people who are off-limits: her boyfriendâs best friend and his girlfriend. Being a twenty-something writer who lives for plot, she falls for them anyway, with deliciously disastrous consequences, in this electric literary debut for fans of Xochitl Gonzalez, Coco Mellors, Lily King, and Raven Leilani.

Itâs the autumn of 2024, and twenty-four-year-old Cat isnât asking for too much: all she wants is three boyfriends, to write her little novels and to survive another chaotic presidential election. Sheâs in an open relationship with her college sweetheart Jay, but nonmonogamy isnât just a hot trend sheâs trying. Itâs her sliver of freedom in a world eager to wrestle it from her for being a Black woman going after what she wants with reckless abandon.

While political tensions roil the campus where Cat is slowly earning her creative writing degree, she finds herself drawn to Jayâs best friend, Tristan, whoâs smart, super hot, and ⦠in a monogamous relationship. And then she meets Tristanâs girlfriend, Nia, a captivating art student with her own gravitational pull.

Friends and family urge her to just be happy with Jay, but Cat is determined to have it all â" or blow up her life trying. As she falls for all the wrong people, racking up lies, betrayals and terrible drafts of her novel, she tries to write her way to a happy ending. But in art, politics, and love, true liberation may take more than rewriting the old scripts. It may mean inventing something entirely new.