Part of Shacking Up
First published 2018
Ruby Scott lives for Halloween. When the holiday rolls around, she does not need much of a reason to throw a party, just a decent excuse and a willing partner. Her best friend Amalie provides both, along with something even better: access to her fiancé's budget. Together they plan a Halloween-inspired fundraiser, the kind of event Ruby has been dreaming up in her head for years. The venue is booked, the costumes are sorted, and the cause is good. Then the hitches arrive, because they always do. What follows is a short, sharp, funny story about two friends trying to pull off something bigger than either of them anticipated, set in the same world as Helena Hunting's Shacking Up. Originally published inside the USA Today bestselling anthology Eye Candy, Getting Down now includes a bonus scene that did not appear in that original release. It is warm, fast, and funnier than a fundraiser has any right to be.
Genres: fiction, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, comedy, contemporary-romance
Vibes: fast-paced, funny, lighthearted, warm, witty
Tropes: forced-proximity, found-family, friends-to-lovers
Period: Halloween
112 pages · ebook · Swerve