Taylor Jenkins Reid's next novel is called The Last Days of Vic & Coco, and it lands on March 2, 2027. It's a con-artist story set in the summer of 1974 — two women, a pool cue, and a plan for one enormous final score. The cover is out too, and it is all desert highway and cigarette smoke.

What is The Last Days of Vic & Coco about?

The Last Days of Vic & Coco follows Victoria Lucchese and Colette Wilson, two friends who have spent years running a pool hustle across the country. Coco, magnetic and fearless, draws overconfident men into a game against her friend. Vic, precise and unstoppable, runs the table clean. The men leave with empty wallets.

The novel is set in the summer of 1974, with Nixon on the brink of impeachment, an oil crisis under way, prices soaring and jobs scarce. Word is spreading about two women to watch out for, and Vic and Coco are running out of marks and out of places to hide. So they set in motion a plan for their biggest payday yet.

Taylor Jenkins Reid describes the book's world as long desert highways, seedy motels and dive bars — two women living by their wits, making their own rules and travelling light. They are the closest thing to family either has ever had, even though neither knows the other's real name.

Why did Taylor Jenkins Reid write this book?

Taylor Jenkins Reid says she has wanted her whole career to write a novel in which friendship between women is not an element of the story but the entire story. "I have long had the sense that if I end my career without having written a book like that, my work will have been left incomplete," she wrote in announcing the novel.

The idea arrived two years ago, after she finished Atmosphere: an image of two women in a dive bar off Route 66, hustling pool. One would be the knockout player, the other the real hustler — and their lives would have to be utterly entwined, because neither could pull off the con alone.

From there came the question the book turns on. If Coco is that good a hustler, how can Vic be sure she isn't being hustled too? Reid says she wrote entire paragraphs of this novel about her own friendships: the ones she can't live without, and the ones that broke her heart.

What does the cover look like?

The cover of The Last Days of Vic & Coco shows a bare arm hanging out of the window of a pale blue car, cigarette between two fingers, rings on the hand. Beyond it, a two-lane road runs dead straight into the desert under a sunset-pink sky stacked with cloud.

The title sits across the top in pale blue display type, with Taylor Jenkins Reid's name in bright yellow beneath it and "A Novel" in script near the bottom corner. It is, unmistakably, a road book.

Taylor Jenkins Reid has also said that special editions of The Last Days of Vic & Coco are coming, with details to be shared.

Where does this sit in Taylor Jenkins Reid's work?

Taylor Jenkins Reid is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Atmosphere, Daisy Jones & The Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. The Last Days of Vic & Coco is her first novel since Atmosphere.

If you've read her before, you know the shape of the pleasure: women with secrets, a period rendered down to its grain, and a relationship you'll argue about afterwards. This time the period is 1974 and the secret is everything — including both names on the cover.

Mark March 2, 2027 in your diary at The Bookclub Boutique and elsewhere. As Taylor Jenkins Reid put it about her two leads: they are both liars, and those aren't their real names.

The Last Days of Vic & Coco: the details

Title	The Last Days of Vic & Coco
Author	Taylor Jenkins Reid
Publication date	March 2, 2027
Setting	Summer 1974, American Southwest

Frequently asked questions

Will there be special editions of The Last Days of Vic & Coco?

Yes. Taylor Jenkins Reid has confirmed that special editions of The Last Days of Vic & Coco are planned and that details will be shared soon. No specifics on finishes, exclusivities or pricing have been announced yet, so the only firm information for now is the March 2, 2027 publication date.

Are Vic and Coco the characters' real names?

No. Victoria Lucchese and Colette Wilson are the names the two hustlers go by, but Taylor Jenkins Reid has said plainly that both women are liars and that those aren't their real names. Within the novel, Vic and Coco don't know each other's true identities either, despite being the closest thing to family either one has.

Source

Based on material from Taylor Jenkins Reid, received October 3, 2026. Written up for The Bookclub Boutique.