The Last Word

A Novel

The Last Word

Katy Birchall

The Last Word

Katy Birchall

romance
4.5 (3,002 ratings)
29 chapters 330K reads Updated 2026-07-05
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The Hating Game meets Beach Read in Katy Birchall's enemies-to-lovers romcom The Last Word, about a young journalist who puts her career (and her heart) on the line when her former work nemesis is hired in her newsroom. Harper Jenkins is at the top of her game. A brilliant, determined journalist with a well-known knack for getting tight-lipped Hollywood stars to open up to her, Harper loves her job as Celebrity Editor at a newspaper's glossy weekend magazine and has the best contacts in the business.But when her awful boss hires talented reporter Ryan to be the new Features Editor, Harper is furious. Because the two have met before: a decade ago, they were interns at the same publication, where they fell into a whirlwind romance...until Ryan betrayed Harper, and they never spoke again.Thrown together in a busy newsroom, their dynamic is a disaster from the start. They can't agree on anything and bicker constantly—Ryan can't bear how...

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