Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, May 19, 2026

Format: ebook

Pages: 336

Rating: 4.5/5 stars

Summary (From Goodreads):

She wants him to help her woo someone else.
Genius. Foolproof. Can’t go wrong.

After a whole lifetime of being bad at love, JoJo Burton decides to solve her intimacy issues once and for all at her sister’s destination wedding on a cruise ship. Armed with pop psychology, she diagnoses herself with a fixation on the neighborhood guy who was her first crush and first kiss (and who just happens to be a newly divorced wedding guest). Determined to woo him for closure, she ropes in her childhood bestie, Cooper Watts, as her wingman. Cooper: who RSVPed no, but showed up anyway. Cooper: who moved to London without a word four years ago. Cooper: who broke her heart.

Shipboard antics abound in this witty, heart-tugging, childhood-friends-to-lovers romance, as JoJo and Cooper team up, fake flirt, slow dance, share a cabin, sing duets, get jealous, answer long-held questions, and finally, at last, discover truths about each other that will change everything.

My Review:

Thank you, St. Martin’s Press, for the copy of this book.
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Read if you like: friends to lovers
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JoJo leaves her fiance at the alter and decides she is going to solve her intimacy issues by getting together with her neighbor friend during her sisters wedding cruise. She convinces her childhood best friend, Cooper, to be her wingman. The two reconnect as friends on the ship and JoJo starts to figure out what she wants in her romantic life.
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This was a well done friends to lovers romance. JoJo and Cooper were super cute and I loved their friendship and banter. The cruise setting was also a fun setting!