Brooke Averick

Mm-hmm.

That she's had since she was a teenager.

And so she has not lost her virginity yet.

And she becomes super obsessed with losing it in the 30 days before her 30th birthday, which is when this book takes place.

She makes a list and that is her goal is to lose it.

And she goes from kind of a non-existent love life to having three prospects.

So it's kind of like, is she going to lose it?

If she loses it, who is she going to lose it to?

So kind of like mystery thriller element there as well.

Murder mystery.

Murder mystery too.

No, but it's just like I tried to really channel those like early 2000s.

I have always wanted to write a book and I have always wanted to write about this like super romantically anxious person.

Yeah.

But I don't I just like thought I wasn't qualified like I was always under the impression like I had to go back to school and like get a master's in creative writing or like.

I had to take a class like I was always looking up like creative writing like USC and then I don't know I was just like waiting for something to like give me the permission that I was looking for totally and then one day I kind of just realized like I think I don't need that I think I can kind of just write a book if I want to right and I think giving myself that permission kind of just like the floodgates open yeah and then once I kind of wrote the first sentence it just all like

Kind of spilled out.

I was definitely the anxiety piece I was kind of pulling from my real life.

I am also super anxious when it comes to romance.

And so I had kind of used my lack of dating experience and threw that in there.