THIS LOVE STORY WILL SELF-DESTRUCT

One Day meets Girls in White Dresses in this heartfelt, humorous, unmistakably New York love story that follows Eve, a millennial, would-be music writer prone to whimsy, and Ben, a level-headed, practical structural engineer.

Key Selling Points

FILLS A GAP IN THE MARKETPLACE: This debut novel from Leslie Cohen is aimed especially at women in their twenties, who tend to be underserved or overlooked in today's women's fiction marketplace. This is "millennial fiction" in its truest form, complete with a female lead character who represents everything it means to come of age in the early twenty-first century.

STRONG 'NEAR-MISS' HOOK: Like David Nicholls's beloved ONE DAY, this story follows the parallel lives of its two main characters over a number of years, punctuated by brief meetings that spark nothing, until one night changes everything and redirects Eve & Ben onto a new course they never could have anticipated.

LOVE/HATE LETTER TO NEW YORK CITY: Featuring a strong sense of place that serves as a throughline in the novel, the book is in part a love/hate letter to all of the frustrations and the fantastic opportunities that come hand-in-hand with living in New York City. Taking the reader on a winding journey from Morningside Heights, to the Lower East Side, from the Bronx to Brooklyn and everywhere in between, as a born-and-bred New Yorker Leslie Cohen writes with a native's adoration and eye to detail that will make readers feel as though they've truly experienced
and explored every nook and cranny of NYC.

NEW YEAR, NEW LOVE STORY: We plan to publish the novel in early 2018, giving readers an escape from thepost-holiday doldrums with this bright, witty, whimsical story of two people who fall for each other despite their bestefforts not to.