A grumpy burnt out health practitioner and a sunshine psychologist ought to fake an engagement to save his whitewater canoeing/ courting therapy startup in Maggie North’s sparkling second novel approximately beginning over.
Burned-out former ER document Stellar J Byrd can solve any crisis besides her personal life. But with her monetary prospects dwindling, she’d do anything to stay in her cherished, luxurious desert city—even take a process as a camp medical doctor at The Love Boat, an unspeakably touchy-feely whitewater canoeing/ dating therapy startup. If there are sing-alongs, she’s calling in unwell.
What’s worse? The founder is Lyle “McHuge” McHugh, the sunshiny psychologist she’s masterfully averted given that their disastrous hookup remaining 12 months.
Hardheaded relationship bean-counter Stellar plans to avert his pathological generosity from now till September, however after a scathing article places McHuge’s credibility into question, the two are compelled right into a fake engagement to salvage the camp’s crumbling public picture.
It’s strictly commercial enterprise . . . However the more intently they paintings collectively, the greater Stellar realizes her emotions for Lyle are some thing but expert.
This summer season is nothing like Stellar anticipated, however may want to or not it’s precisely what she needed? With a colorful forged of camp-goers, together with a journalist cause on bringing The Love Boat down and an estranged celeb sibling, plus a sprint of company espionage, Maggie North’s signature coronary heart and warmth shine in The Ripple Effect.