Nico knows her heart. Her family knows her name. The whole city knows her face at parties. What nobody has ever given her a context to show - until Alejandro, who didn't want to see it and had no choice - is that she can walk into a community meeting of people who've been lied to for two years and have them on her side in twenty minutes. That she can read a room the way he reads a balance sheet. That she checks her own work three times when she thinks nobody's watching. That she is, in a context that required her to be more than decorative, exactly that. He was the last person she expected to see her. He was also the last person who could ignore what he found.

Chris and Amy Smith have agreed on exactly one thing in the last six months: They need space. So Chris books a solo healing retreat in the mountains to "find himself." Amy books a solo wellness escape to "reset her energy." Neither of them tells the other. Neither of them realizes, until they are standing at the check-in desk of the Serenity Pines Healing & Wellness Retreat, that they have booked the exact same place. The retreat has a strict policy: no early departures, no phones after 8pm, mandatory group activities, and absolutely no negative energy. Amy and Chris have a lot of negative energy. Over fourteen days, they will be forced to share a cabin, complete a couples' healing program they are not enrolled in but keep getting assigned to, survive a group hiking disaster, a cooking class war, a trust fall exercise that ends in a mild injury, a very opinioChrisd retreat counselor named Brent who absolutely cannot read the room, and the slowly dawning, deeply inconvenient realization that they might - might - still be in love with each other. Or they might just want to commit a crime. Hard to say. They agreed on space. They got fourteen days of the opposite. 35 Chapters