First published 2020
Carey Duncan has spent a decade as the quiet engine behind home design stars Melissa and Rusty Tripp. She knows where every skeleton is buried, and right now the biggest skeleton is this: America's favorite couple genuinely cannot stand each other. With a Netflix series launching and a book tour about to kick off, the timing could not be worse. James McCann signed on as the Tripps' engineer, but nobody told him the actual job description was glorified babysitter on a cross-country press tour. Carey and James are now stuck managing two adults who want to tear each other apart, all while keeping fans and cameras completely in the dark. Neither of them can quit, no matter how badly they want to. They have to hold the secrets together, show up every day, and pretend everything is fine. The problem is that spending that much time side by side, running damage control, starts to feel like something else. Carey and James begin noticing each other in ways that have nothing to do with the Tripps, and that shift turns out to be the most complicated thing on the whole tour.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: charming, emotional, fast-paced, lighthearted, witty
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, found-family, slow-burn
Setting: America
308 pages · Paperback · Piatkus