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Till Summer Do Us Part
Audiobook available · 11 hr 50 min
Scottie Price invents a husband to fit in at her new job. When her boss offers marriage counseling, she recruits her best friend’s brother Wilder to play the part. His enthusiasm gets them booked into an eight-day couples camp with her colleagues, sharing a cabin while pretending their marriage needs saving.
From the publisher’s blurb
“But the cost will be hefty . . . finding a husband by tomorrow.”Read the full description at Hodder & Stoughton publisher description
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What makes it funny?
Wilder treats the fake marriage as an improv exercise. In the excerpt, Scottie is trying to get out of counseling while he eagerly signs them up for more, then celebrates a touchdown in the counselor’s office. Romcom-group readers recommend the book when someone asks for funny romance.
The comedy at work
Every effort to make the lie convincing gives Scottie another obligation. Wilder’s willingness to agree makes him useful as a fake spouse and disastrous as an accomplice who is supposed to help her leave.
Try this if…
Extravagant pretend-marriage trouble is the attraction here. The romance grows through enforced closeness and staged marital conflict; the plot asks you to accept increasingly unlikely developments.
Good to know
This standalone includes explicit sex and the emotional aftermath of Scottie’s painful divorce. Readers describe it as a spicy romance.
A few distinguishing details
- A fictitious marriage that requires real couples counseling
- An improv enthusiast playing the fake husband
More funny contemporary romance
Sources & further reading
- Till Summer Do Us Part (Unabridged) — Apple Books
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- Till Summer Do Us Part Standard Edition — Sourcebooks
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