I honestly don’t feel that Meghan Quinn can do any story wrong these days. They always surprise me and I can say this one was perfection. Yes we have all the tropes we’ve seen before: one bed, fake marriage, best friend’s brother, forced proximity, etc. But Quinn takes them and makes them more. Sure I knew that the whole fake marriage thing had to come out at some point, and I could see all the ways it was going to happen and the drama it would create. However, when it did come out it was nothing like you usually see, totally not the way I saw it coming out. And it did not create that usual drama for drama’s sake that I tend to dislike so much.

First the story starts off perfectly, getting to know Scottie as she starts her new job. As someone who has always been single, never married, I kind of got the feeling out of place with everyone being married. But of course Scottie’s reasons for feeling that way turn out to be much different than mine. But wow, her claiming to be married in that situation is crazy! When she comes in to tell her friend Mika and Denise, then Mika has the solution with his brother Wilder.

Wilder is so funny. A millionaire, sold an app, and now is just exploring the things he wants to. Like improv. Of course all of his talk about that, “just say yes”, makes me think about the time Penny was trying to teach Sheldon about acting on The Big Bang Theory. And boy does Wilder say yes to any and every opening that comes up in first the marriage counseling session, followed by the camp that they end up going to, with all of Scottie’s hated co-workers.

You could honestly call the camp, and their cabin, a separate character in the story! The sex cabin, as they call it, comes with all kinds of toys and other sensual accessories, artwork, etc. Turns out the other campers, Scottie’s co-workers, have attended the camp before and it is the cabin everyone wants. Scottie and Wilder are able to push forward and win the competitions, winning prizes some of the other campers really wanted and making some mad. But to keep up their fake marriage ruse, they have to fight and argue. And oh my gosh, the fighting, so hilarious the things they say and come up with. But it turns out that both of them have actual past experiences or issues that seem to come up in the arguing. And Sanders, Scottie’s boss’ husband, also the marriage counselor, helps them figure these things out.

Of course while Scottie has her reasons that make a lot of sense, Wilder’s reasons seem a little less solid, and it is easy to see why Scottie is afraid he could hurt her if he doesn’t figure them out. Even when he is showing her how he feels and doing all the things that should show her he means it. It is easy to understand why she feels like once they get back to the “real world” away from the isolated camp vibe perfect for exploring that he might decide he doesn’t really feel as strongly as he seems to. And when they’re made up marriage comes out, like I said at the beginning of my review, it is done so unusually from other stories like this that I really was intent on reading and seeing where the author was going to take the story from there.

The bucket list they made was fun once they got back to NYC. And as much as I love going to the movies, I’ve never actually done the M&M’s in the popcorn trick, so now I want to try that. Oh, and the two have their love of Nerd gummi clusters, which I’ve developed a bit myself since my niece and nephew introduced me to them earlier this year.

As I said, I loved this story, I think Meghan Quinn has created a perfect romance, with lots of work, nothing is too easy which is so realistic in my opinion. And oh my gosh, the steamy bits? Towards the last third of the book! I was fanning myself! So much love for this book!