This Is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith (review)

Graham is an internationally recognized movie star. His stardom is accidental, though, resulting from his auditioning on a lark for a part in a movie that catapulted him to the A-list; he's more of an introverted loner than someone who seeks the limelight. Ellie lives alone with her mom in small-town Maine and frets about money and being found, since she's the illegitimate daughter of a married politician who may be on his way to the White House. After a misspelled email address on a new phone brings the two into contact, they develop an online friendship that includes sharing the hopes and dreams that don't necessarily show through in their day-to-day lives. When Graham arranges to have his next movie shot on location in Maine so that he can meet Ellie, their face-to-face encounter lives up to all of their hopes, but Ellie pulls back to avoid media exposure. The problems they face with intrusive paparazzi and controlling managers are a bit contrived, especially since their real story could have been spun by any half-decent publicist into the stuff high school dreams are made of, but readers reared on TMZ will no doubt forgive and understand. Graham is fully crush-worthy: loyal, sensitive, and appealingly lonely, he's everything a girl could wish for behind his smoldering good looks and hefty bank account. Thus, this frothy romance is unapologetically romantic, shot through with wish fulfillment fantasies of all kinds, and it reads with a swiftness that belies its page length, making it a perfect summer indulgence; expect it to be returned smelling of coconut and with sand between the pages.