By Betsie Hill
Mimi, an assistant librarian with a romantic track record as cluttered as her book return bin, is stuck in a loop. When her patient but exasperated boyfriend Luther breaks up with her—fed up with competing with the ghost of Randy, her charming but manipulative ex—Mimi hits rock bottom. Desperate to break free from the past, she signs up for an experimental procedure to erase Randy from her memory.
But something goes wrong.
Instead of forgetting just Randy, the procedure wipes out all of her recent romantic history—including Luther and a sweet new acquaintance named Henry, a funny and charming man she’d met just before the procedure, someone she was finally ready to open up to.
Suddenly untethered from her emotional baggage and her growth, Mimi drifts right back into her old patterns. She starts reconnecting with Randy, not knowing their painful history, and even feels an odd pull toward Luther, who seems to want to take advantage of her new personality.
Meanwhile, Henry watches quietly from the sidelines. He knows everything—how they met, how they clicked instantly, how she lit up around him—and now he’s just a stranger in her eyes. He even knows why. But something in Mimi resists falling fully back into her past. Little signs, fleeting feelings, and strange flashes begin to resurface.
Vacation is a sharp and heartfelt romantic comedy about how sometimes forgetting everything is the only way to remember what really matters—and that love, when it’s real, has a way of finding its way back, even when your heart has to relearn the path.
