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The Heart of the Deal

A Novel

by Lindsay MacMillan
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Perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Jojo Moyes, this debut novel deftly captures the feeling of being adrift in your late twenties.
With poignant commentary on female friendships, mental health, and what happiness really looks like, The Heart of the Deal is a "thoughtful and emotional" (Farrah Rochon, USA Today bestselling author) romance.
Rae is in a romantic recession.
The Wall Street banker is single in New York City and overwhelmed by the pressure to scramble up the corporate and romantic ladders. Feeling her biological clock ticking, she analyzes her love life like a business deal and vows to lock in a husband before her 30th birthday. 
The Manhattan dating app scene has as many ups and downs as the stock market, and outsourcing dates to an algorithm isn’t exactly Rae’s idea of romance. She considers cutting her losses, but her friends help her stay invested, boosting her spirits with ice cream and cheap wine that they share in their sixth-floor walk-up while recapping cringe-worthy dates.
And then Rae meets Dustin, a poetic soul trapped in a business suit, just like her. She starts to hear wedding bells, but Dustin’s struggles with depression will test their relationship, and no amount of financial modeling can project what their future will look like.
Can Rae free herself from the idea she had of what thirty was supposed to look like and let love breathe on its own timeline? Or is she too conditioned to stay on the “right track” to follow her unpaved intuition?
Moving and timely, The Heart of the Deal is the story of one woman’s reckoning with what success really is in a city, an industry, and a relationship whose low lows continually challenge the enchantment of the high highs.

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    June 7, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781639100118

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      • ISBN: 9781639100118
      • File size: 905 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      April 1, 2022
      As she ages from 25 to 30, a Manhattan woman searches for love and finds herself. Rae, newly turned 25, has realized that time is of the essence. She has mapped out her future carefully and backdated the time necessary for each step--the three kids spaced two years apart before she turns 35, the wedded bliss before kids, the living together before marriage, the two years of dating, and the meeting the one--to the present moment. Cue dating apps so that she can get a move on and meet that special someone fast. With a grueling job as an investment banker, Rae is long on planning and strategies and short on time. And with a dream of becoming a poet, she yearns for connection at a spiritual level even as she dissects every romantic relationship as if it were a business deal. Her group of friends--dubbed the Scramblettes for a half-omelet, half-scrambled egg concoction they invented by accident--includes Ellen, Mina, and Sarah, who are all on their own varied paths toward love and career success. As Rae dates, works, and watches her friends pair off, return to singlehood, and explore their own futures, she constantly interrogates herself and her heart. Is she looking for the highs and lows of deep love, being truly seen, and the risky investment that can be? Or is she seeking a secure investment, compatibility, and contentment? Author MacMillan has created a character whose voice matures and grows as she ages these five years--no mean feat. Readers will be invested in Rae's choices and whether or not they are the right ones, for sure. But the constant introspection and heavy-handed investment banking jargon might be a turn-off for some. An analytic and emotional exploration of love, mental health issues, and what it means to give someone your heart.

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    • Booklist

      May 15, 2022
      First-time novelist Macmillan explores facets of friendship and questions about following one's path in this tale about New York banker Rae. Her life plan involves getting married before turning 30 and climbing the financial career ladder. Rae keeps telling herself to spend only one more year at her current job since she has been passed over for promotions that men receive. While she and her three best friends support each other through dating mishaps, Rae watches others take job and romantic risks that pay off. When she falls for a man struggling with depression, she has to decide for herself what to do, a calculation that shouldn't be based on numbers alone. Ultimately, Rae makes brave choices and becomes a richly multidimensional character. Readers will relate to her or strongly disagree with her, a mark of Macmillan's good writing. This blend of women's fiction and romance raises biological-clock issues and conflicts involved in making tough choices, themes that will inspire lively book discussions.

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