"The book your beach bag is begging for! It's smart, snappy, sun-soaked fun, juicier than a season of Love Island and funnier than your favorite sitcom. You'll be rooting for Grace through every ridiculous physical challenge and every new romantic encounter on her madcap journey toward self-discovery and real love." - Timothy Janovsky, USA Today bestselling author of The (Fake) Dating Game
A wickedly funny debut romcom in which a young scientist reluctantly becomes a contestant on a reality TV dating show to save her laband realizes her secrets are threatened when romance unexpectedly finds her behind the scenes.
Grace Lamberts entire family are all influencers. Her mom runs an HGTV-like Instagram, her dad operates a Yoga for Men Youtube channel, and her brothers are famous on Tiktok and Twitch. Grace, however, is a scientist devoted to saving the Southern Mountain yellow-legged frogs from extinction, who has never had social media.
When her mom signs her up for a dating show with a cult-like following, Grace hangs up on their lawyer, Andrew, immediately. She has no interest in reality TVuntil her lab loses its funding, and her coworkers learn about not only the shows worldwide viewership . . . but the cash prize.
Arriving on set, Grace immediately feels like a frog out of water. She doesnt know how to mug for the cameras, make effortless small talk with the contestants, or watch her tongue in an interviewmaking her a constant thorn in Andrews side.
The more time Grace spends competing in challenges, unexpectedly flirting with contestants, and making Andrews life a living hell, the more she realizes that being there for the wrong reason and keeping it secret might be trickier than she thoughtnot to mention just how much trouble an illicit, off-screen romance can bring.
