Until August

She invented a husband. He took the job seriously.

Clara Hayes is three years, twelve major pitches, and one catastrophic lie away from the Creative Director promotion she has spent her career earning. There is just one problem.

Her boss believes that stable people do the best work. And stable people, at her very conservative, very couple-obsessed agency, are married people.

Clara is not married.

In a moment of Prosecco-fueled panic at the company cocktail party, she invents one. His name is Daniel. He is an architect. He travels constantly. He is wonderful.

He also does not exist.

When her boss announces that the top candidates will spend a week at Camp Haven - an adults-only marriage retreat deep in the Catskill Mountains - Clara has seventy-two hours to produce a real human version of the man she invented.

She finds Beckett Wilder on a posting for theatrical gig work.

He is thirty-one, barefoot in July, and arrives at their prep meeting with the easy confidence of someone who has done stranger things. He reads her seven-page reference document in fifteen minutes and asks three questions. The third one makes her eye twitch.

He has one rule: he will not say anything he does not mean.

She has seventeen rules. His is the one that matters.

Camp Haven is designed to make couples more honest. The trust falls. The appreciation circles held in candlelit rooms. The tandem kayaking that does not go according to plan. The midnight letter-writing exercise that Clara attends alone and does not leave alone.

Every activity is a trap. Every trap is working exactly as intended.

Because something is happening in Cabin 7.

Something that has nothing to do with the reference document, the exit strategies, or the pillow wall that has been migrating nightly toward his side of the bed.

UNTIL AUGUST is a warm, funny, and emotionally honest romance about two people who agreed to lie about love - and discovered that lying is considerably harder when the person across the pillow wall is the most honest one you have ever met.

Perfect for readers who love:

Fake relationship romance with real emotional stakes Forced proximity and one shared bed Small-town and mountain summer settings Slow burn that earns every page of the payoff A heroine who plans everything except this A hero with one unbreakable rule

If you stayed up past midnight for a slow burn and would do it again without hesitation, this is your next read.

Grab your copy of UNTIL AUGUST and find out if their perfect lie can survive the heat of the Catskills.