Spotlight & Giveaway: Get Lost with You by Sophie Sullivan

Today, HJ is pleased to share with you Sophie Sullivan’s new release: Get Lost with You: A Novel

A second chance at love, small-town romance that’s all sweet with just a hint of heat from the “queen of sweet romance” (Falon Ballard) Sophie Sullivan.

Jillian Keller took the long route to her best life, but is now happily settled in her hometown of Smile, raising her little girl alone while helping her brother run Get Lost Lodge. A lover of structure and routine, she doesn’t need anyone disrupting her carefully curated life.
After chasing and achieving his culinary dreams, Levi Bright realizes he’s still missing something he can’t find in a big city. Returning home to Smile, he intends to build a different future for himself, including reconnecting with family and friends, and creating elevated comfort food for a town he loves.

When Levi and Jilly run into each other, past feelings that never had a chance to bloom flare between them… but she’s been hurt before, and falling for her older brother’s best friend seems like a recipe for drama. But sometimes, a second chance at love leads you right where you’re meant to be.

Enjoy an exclusive excerpt from Get Lost with You: A Novel 

From Get Lost with You by Sophie Sullivan. Copyright © 2025 by the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Publishing Group.

Two
Every town worth its name had a decent pie shop. As the night waitress at Petal’s Pie Palace took her order—decaf tea, a piece of apple (a classic), peach-blueberry (her favorite), and chocolate cream (obvious reasons), Jillian told herself it was okay to indulge. She’d rather have three pieces of pie than a six-pack of beer. She might feel as gross as Lainey tomorrow as a result but it wouldn’t give her a headache.
Glancing around the small shop that was basically a Smile institution, memories of coming here as a teen drifted lazily through her brain. Petal’s stayed open until the wee hours of the morning for people who needed a delicious, carb-rich snack after a late night at Brothers’ Pub, Lakeview Bar (which wasn’t really much of a bar at all but stayed open until two on the weekends), or unnecessary high school reunions.
The booths were a faded teal color with bubble-gum-pink flecks that, at one time, looked like confetti or sprinkles. Music played softly through the speakers but Jilly knew it came from a Bluetooth speaker rather than the antique jukebox in the corner. The place had the same sort of nostalgic vibe the breakfast diner on Middle Street, Pete’s, did.
The waitress dropped off three plates of pie and asked, again, if anyone was joining her.
“Nope,” Jilly said, pushing down the need to explain herself for ordering three pieces. She could eat a whole damn pie if she wanted. Being a grown-up didn’t come with nearly as many perks as kids thought it did. Ordering as much dessert as she wanted was one of them.
“’Kay,” the waitress said, like the one syllable was all she could handle. She was probably about seventeen or eighteen and it was late, so maybe two syllables was asking too much.
Sliding her fork into the chocolate cream first, she then let the rich flavors burst on her tongue. Was there anything better than pie at nearly one in the morning? Scooping up a bite of peach-blueberry, she smiled, knowing what Lainey’s answer would be.
For all her teasing, Lainey didn’t date much more than Jilly did. Though her best friend didn’t have the ex-husband who turned out to be a lying, embezzling rat-snake (Ollie insisted that was the worst combination of creatures imaginable) in her past, Lainey shared Jill’s wariness of leaning too heavily on anyone other than herself.
While she nibbled from each pie plate, Jilly went through her Notes app and her to-do lists. Most people in Smile wore many hats, and Jilly was no different. She’d taken a leave from her job at the accounting firm to help her oldest brother. In the end, she’d loved working at the lodge enough to not go back. She had a few businesses that she did books on the side for, including Pete’s, her brother Beckett’s bike shop, and Lainey’s bracelet shop. But she also had other plans and here, at the pie place, in the middle of the night, when she didn’t want to dwell on the past and didn’t want to go home to her present, she could think about her future.
The lodge was well set up to handle events like team-building sessions, bachelor or bachelorette parties, and even weddings. She just needed to find the most cost-effective way to present the idea to Grayson. Presley, her soon-to-be sister-in-law if her brother Beckett ever got around to proposing, would help her with the marketing.
By next year, she hoped Get Lost Lodge would be the go-to place to host events in Smile, Northern Michigan, and surrounding islands.
“You want anything else?” the waitress asked, appearing like a pie-yielding ninja.
“I’m good,” Jilly said, glancing up.
There were only a couple of other people in the shop but the waitress hesitated, staring at Jill, not delivering her orders.
Jill waited, wondering if the teen was okay, if maybe she needed something. Her nose scrunched up, making her nose ring look uncomfortable.
“Everything okay?” Jilly asked.
“You have pie in your hair,” the waitress said, then walked past.
Jilly closed her eyes and sighed. Time to go home.
V

Leaving the three partially eaten pieces of pie in the fridge of her parents’ home, where she’d been living temporarily for about four years now, she got ready for bed and crawled in beside a softly snoring Ollie.
Inhaling deeply, she caught the scent of vanilla bath wash and bubble-gum scented shampoo. Ollie stirred, rolled, and nearly whapped Jilly in the nose with her hand.
Jilly caught her fingers, tucked them close to her body.
“Mom?” Ollie whispered.
“Yeah?”
“Just making sure it’s you.” Ollie snuggled closer.
Jilly huffed out a soft laugh. “It’s my bed, honey. Of course it’s me.”
“I need cupcakes for tomorrow for my whole class,” she whispered even as she fell back asleep, practically snoring out the last word.
Jilly sighed into the darkness. Lainey might think she was lonely, or worry about her happiness, but Jillian Keller had everything she needed, right here beside her. Except cupcakes. And she could grab those in the morning.

From Get Lost with You by Sophie Sullivan. Copyright © 2025 by the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Publishing Group.

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Meet the Author:

SOPHIE SULLIVAN (she/her) is a Canadian author as well as a cookie-eating, Diet Pepsi-drinking, Disney enthusiast who loves reading and writing romance in almost equal measure. She writes around her day job as a teacher and spends her spare time with her sweet family watching reruns of Friends. She has written Ten Rules for Faking it and How to Love Your Neighbor, and has had plenty of practice writing happily ever after as her alter ego, Jody Holford.

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