Ella and Tim are roommates, co-workers, and best friends who start a band that makes music inspired by fandom culture. Along with interns Sasha and Denver they unite their talents to compete in a local Battle of the Bands competition that will forever change them.

When an idealistic romance novelist and a cynical literary fiction writer—rival authors with dramatically opposing worldviews and a serious case of writer's block—unexpectedly find themselves living next door to each other in a small Lake Michigan beach town for the summer, they strike an unlikely bet to swap genres and the lines between fiction and romance begin to blur.