Tuesday, June 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
 CLICK HERE TO RSVP _**RSVP is recommended but not required. Entry and seating are first-come, first-served. RSVPs do not guarantee entry to a full event.**_ **How did Joe Goldberg become Joe Goldberg? What led to his first love . . . first obsession . . . first kill? Find out in the highly anticipated prequel to _New York Times_ bestselling author Caroline Kepnes’s hit You series, which inspired the blockbuster Netflix show.** Joe Goldberg is ready for his life to start. He’s seventeen years old, working in Mr. Mooney’s bookshop, falling in love with every girl on the subway all while wondering who will be _the one_. He knows what he needs: A woman who will force him to get his GED, go to night school, and make something of himself. But who would ever fall in love with him? Then he spots it: MISSED CONNECTION, NYC Bookstore Babe. Someone is looking for _Joe_. And that someone is Vail Gunderson, a production assistant with a passion for rom-coms. The only catch: she’s twenty-four, which means that Joe has no choice but to lie about his age…and, naturally, nearly everything else in his life. Joe thinks he’s found true love, but when Vail needs more convincing that Joe is her happily ever after, he’s determined to convince her…no matter _what_ it takes… With her incisive and darkly comedic prose, Caroline Kepnes captures Joe poised on the edge of manhood, entering the vicious, dog-eat-dog New York dating scene for the very first time, and buffeted by forces that will determine what kind of man he will become—and how he will write his own twisted love story. **Caroline Kepnes** is the author of _You, Hidden Bodies, You Love Me_, _For You and Only You,_ and _Providence_. Her work has been translated into a multitude of languages and inspired a television series adaptation of _You_, currently on Netflix. Kepnes graduated from Brown University and worked as a pop culture journalist for _Entertainment Weekly_ and a TV writer for _7th Heaven_ and _The Secret Life of the American Teenager._ She grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and now lives in Los Angeles.