For nine books, Audrey Herrick has told you other women's stories.
She is the founder of The Departure Lounge, the woman that wealthy, frightened, wonderful people call when their lives crack open and they need to be somewhere beautiful to figure out what comes next. She has sent a heartbroken surgeon to the Amalfi Coast, a buttoned-up lawyer to a tango floor in Buenos Aires, a grieving widow to a sunlit terrace in Provence. She builds the perfect trip every single time. Then she flies home to Brooklyn and eats cereal standing over the sink.
There is one story Audrey has never told you. Her own.
For three years she has been emailing a man named Elliot Voss, who runs a small, stubborn, perfect hotel on the Croatian coast. Twelve rooms. No televisions. A cat with strong opinions and a door he opens himself. They have met exactly four times. Their emails began as business and became the most honest correspondence of her life, conducted entirely in the postscripts, four thousand miles apart, where it was safe. Audrey is extraordinary at arranging other people's arrivals. She has never once managed her own.
This time she does not make a reservation. She just gets on a plane.
What she finds in Rovinj is a town that adopts her before she can stop it, a man who has quietly been building her something for three years, and the question she has spent her whole life outrunning: what happens to a woman who has made a career out of beautiful escapes when she finally lands somewhere she does not want to escape from?
THE ROVINJ RENDEZVOUS is the tenth and final book in The Departure Lounge, and at last it is Audrey's own love story. Longtime readers have waited nine books for it. New readers can begin right here, on the bank, with the woman who builds the boats, on the night she finally climbs into one.
A standalone romantic comedy with a guaranteed happily ever after. Funny, warm, swooning, and immersive enough to taste the salt off the Adriatic.
The Departure Lounge: every love story starts with a destination.
