Call her a mirrorball – Lucy Score is in her disco era.
The bestselling author of “Things We Never Got Over” is back with the second saga of Story Lake, and it is adorned with all sorts of glittery, broken pieces. “Mistakes Were Made,” out March 10, 2026 from Bloom Books, is a new love story in the same small town as her last novel, “Story of My Life.”
USA TODAY is exclusively revealing the cover and has the inside scoop on what readers can expect. We sat down with Score to chat all things disco balls, small-town romance and the Taylor Swift song that inspired her latest book.
When I call Score from her Pennsylvania home office, she’s wearing a disco ball necklace. Behind her, there’s a disco ball desk trinket among copies of her bestsellers. It’s only fitting, then, that a glittering sphere is the forefront of the “Mistakes Were Made” cover, hovering over a lake similar to the setting of the Story Lake love stories.
Zoey, the novel’s protagonist, was first introduced to readers as the best friend and literary agent of “Story of My Life” heroine Hazel Hart. And while she may be a light to her friends and family, she can’t help but feel like she’s failing at life.
