

I love giving him that first-day-of-school energy,” says Kepnes, who’s been living with Joe since the first You book hit shelves in 2014. “He’s ready for the best part of his life to begin. But things are looking up for the murderous, hopeless romantic in the new novel: He’s now relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a creative writing fellowship at Harvard. Except that in her version of the story, he’s actually a student.įor You and Only You (out now) picks up after the tragic ending of 2021’s You Love Me, which sees a grieving Joe move to Florida and open a bar and bookstore.


In the fourth season of You, Penn Badgley’s Joe Goldberg changes his name and starts teaching literature at a college in London. In For You and Only You - the latest novel in the book series upon which the show is based - author Caroline Kepnes also sends Joe to school. It’s time for the teacher to become the student in the You-niverse.
