Part of Shacking Up, book 2
First published 2017
Amalie Whitfield is standing at her own wedding reception when she hears her new husband with someone else. The guests hear it too. In a panic, she throws herself at the nearest attractive stranger, who turns her down flat. So she does the only logical thing: she boards her honeymoon flight alone. The problem is that the man who rejected her is on the same plane, headed to the same small island for work. Away from the wreckage of the wedding, he stops holding back, and so does she. They agree to keep things contained to the island. Neither of them quite manages that. Amalie knows sleeping with someone she already knows is a bad idea. She does it anyway. Helena Hunting, the New York Times bestselling author behind the Pucked series and Shacking Up, delivers a standalone romantic comedy that moves fast, leans into the absurdity of its setup, and takes the physical chemistry between two people seriously enough to ask what happens when it refuses to stay casual.
Genres: romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, comedy, contemporary-romance
Vibes: fast-paced, humorous, lighthearted, steamy, witty
Tropes: fake-dating-adjacent, forced-proximity, second-chance, strangers-to-lovers
Setting: island
304 pages · Paperback · Swerve
Content warnings: explicit-sexual-content