
The proximity forces Liv to finally admit her ever-present attraction to Deiss-but Phoebe makes her vow not to ruin the group dynamic by sleeping with him. There, she winds up sharing a room with Deiss, who has a secret past of his own. Impulsively, she starts saying no to the unfair demands of her job and follows her friends to South Africa. But just before her friends leave for a safari that Liv’s afraid to splurge on with them, Deiss challenges Liv to get off the corporate treadmill. Having grown up poor and occasionally homeless, she works herself to death at her office job. Still, Liv feels like the odd one out, envying the others’ self-confidence and money. And all too soon, she might have to choose between keeping her feet on the ground and her head in the clouds.This winning friends-to-lovers romance from Waldon ( The Layover) centers on a group of college best friends-Liv, Phoebe, Simone, Mac, and Deiss-who have stayed close for 11 years. Yet the more time Ava spends with him under the hot Caribbean sun, the more she begins to second-guess everything she thought she knew about him.and everything she thought she wanted from her life. Being stranded with him at a luxury resort in paradise? Even with the sultry breeze and white sand to distract her, it will take all the rum punch in the country to drown out his larger-than-life presence. Getting stuck on a three-hour flight with her nemesis was bad enough.

But when their plane encounters mechanical problems, what should have been a quick stop at the Belize airport suddenly becomes a weekend layover.

Good thing she never has to see him again after they land. And he has the nerve to flirt with her, as if he doesn't remember the role he played in the most humiliating night of her life. But then she discovers that former pilot Jack Stone-the absurdly gorgeous, ridiculously cocky man she's held a secret grudge against for years-is on her flight.

She's got one trip left before she bids her old life farewell, and she plans to enjoy every second of it. After ten years as a flight attendant, Ava Greene is poised to hang up her wings and finally put down roots. An unexpected tropical layover with her nemesis turns a flight attendant's life upside down in this witty, breezy debut romantic comedy about life-and love-30,000 feet above the ground.
