The Matchmaker Comes Undone

I planned this cruise for my friends' happy endings. I never planned on needing one myself.

I booked five staterooms, built the itinerary, and told each of my friends a small, necessary lie about who else had already agreed to come — whatever it took to get the five of us on this boat. I've spent a decade being the one who makes things happen for everyone else. This trip was supposed to be four love stories and one very tired travel agent, watching from the sidelines with a mocktail.

Then I met Julian, and for the first time all trip, I wasn't the one running the show. He took one look at my clipboard and my mocktail and called my bluff before I'd even finished making it. Nobody's done that in years. I didn't hate it.

One night was supposed to be enough. It wasn't. I keep finding reasons to end up wherever he is, and he keeps finding reasons to let me — and somewhere in there, the woman who plans everything stopped being able to tell you what happens next.

The Matchmaker Comes Undone is the fifth and final book in The Cruise Ship Project series. It features Older Woman/Younger Man romance, ghost-pepper-hot instalust, a heroine who's spent four books managing everyone else's happy ending, a hero who calls her bluff before she's finished making it, and a happily ever after that's all about her. It can be read on its own and has no cliffhangers.