Mistakes Were Made (Story Lake #2)

Author: Lucy Score  Title: Mistakes Were Made Publisher: Bloom Books Date Published: 03/10/2026

Read Dates: 03/02/2026- 03/03/2026
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. Many Thanks to Hambright PR  for this gifted e-book to read and review. The following is my honest review✍🏻

Mistakes Were Made is a dual POV, opposites attract small town romance. Unpredictable Zoey has no intention of staying in Story Lake; she's there temporarily to help her best friend (and only client), Hazel, with her book launch, and then she's planning to return to Manhattan and take the publishing world by storm. In the meantime, she's renting an apartment above the law office of Gage, small town lawyer/contractor, and steady, dependable brother to Hazel's fiancé. The two could not be more opposite. Zoey is chaos personified, and Gage is a walking calendar app, but proximity paired with a pesky attraction keeps drawing them together, and soon they find themselves indulging in a temporary fling.

This was such a fun return to Story Lake and all the weird, quirky small town shenanigans. I really loved steady, dependable Gage, who knew what he wanted and tried to make a plan for everything. And Zoey was extremely relatable. The ADHD representation, especially for a woman being diagnosed later in life, was very well done. I loved these two together and cannot wait to see what else is to come in this series. 

He's looking for the perfect wife. She's looking for the perfect one-night stand.

Literary agent Zoey Moody doesn't like small town life, but here she is: exiled from Manhattan's publishing scene and trapped in a tiny Pennsylvania town with her BFF and only remaining client, Hazel. The problem? She's totally broke.

All she needs is for Hazel's next romance novel to become a gigantic hit, and Zoey will be back in New York. Nothing will stand in her way. Nothing except her six-foot-two-inch landlord, Gage Bishop. He's smart, serious, and sexy. Worst of all, he's ready to settle down.

Zoey might be the most beautiful woman Gage has ever met, but it's clear they're all wrong for each other. She's allergic to commitment and can't work a calendar app; he's looking for a wife and has the next five years all planned out. She's afraid of animals. He lives in a literal barn. But when Gage's world is rocked by a devastating family secret, he turns to Zoey for one night to forget everything. That one night just might change everything…or ruin it.

Perfect for fans of the heart, humor, and hope found in Things We Never Got Over and Things We Left Behind, Mistakes Were Made is a steamy escape to small town romance―full of emotional twists, slow-burn tension, and Lucy Score's trademark charm.