What Happens in Amsterdam

Rachel Lynn Solomon

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After a breakup and job loss send her reeling, thirty-something Dani Dorfman takes a fresh-start job in Amsterdam, only to literally crash her bike into Wouter van Leeuwen, the Dutch exchange student who was her family's guest and her first love a decade earlier before he ghosted her. When Dani's job and housing fall through just as Wouter needs a wife to inherit his family's canal house, the two strike a marriage of convenience that forces them back into close quarters and unresolved feelings. As they navigate pretending to be a happy couple for Wouter's family, old chemistry and old wounds resurface, pushing both of them to decide what they actually want from life and from each other. It's a second-chance romance wrapped in an ode to expat life in Amsterdam.