First published 2025
Dani Dorfman arrives in Amsterdam after an office romance destroys her career back home. She's thirty something and still doesn't know what she wants from life. Her new job falls through within a week, leaving her stranded and alone in a foreign city. Then she crashes her bicycle straight into Wouter van Leeuwen, the Dutch exchange student her family hosted years ago. Their high school romance ended badly, but the attraction between them still burns hot. Wouter faces his own problem. He needs a wife to inherit his family's canal house. Dani needs a visa to stay in the country. They strike a deal for a marriage of convenience, but living together stirs up old feelings and new complications. Dani must choose whether to run from another messy situation or fight for a second chance at love.
Genres: fiction, romance, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, intimate
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fish-out-of-water, marriage-of-convenience
Setting: Amsterdam
Period: 21st-century
384 pages · Paperback · Penguin Books Ltd