Can you imagine getting stuck alone on a deserted island with the person you hate most in the world? And no end in sight?
Well, that’s me. Bailey Johansson, former assistant to the absolute worst boss ever to boss in the boss world. Stranded on a tiny island owned by a cruise line in an abandoned party hut.
In a tropical storm.
This is not a love story.
It’s not a tale of redemption or heroism.
It’s a revenge drama. No — a revenge COMEDY.
Because I’ll get the last laugh. The cruise ship leaving early due to an approaching storm while we yelled at each other on the opposite beach was a SIGN.
I’m going to get that man back for everything he did to me. I’ve decided that Mr. Juicy, as my old coworkers called him (yeah, THAT’S a story), is going to rue the day he ever fired me.
And no, I’m not going to fall in love with him.
Not on your life.
This was my first book by the author (and my first experience with the Pickle clan) but won’t be my last. Bailey has been a model employee for the past two years despite being the assistant to a demanding boss, so she’s shocked to be fired. She’s been accused of stealing almost half a million dollars from the company and nobody even asked for her side of the story. Well, she wasn’t Rhett’s biggest fan in the first place but now she really doesn’t like the boss man. The worst part is that she was fired just weeks before the big company cruise and she deserved that trip because she’d earned it. Well, Bailey isn’t going to miss out, so she concocts a plan to get onto the cruise ship and confront Rhett about firing her once they’re out at sea far enough that they won’t take her back to land.
She spends the earliest stages of the cruise in hiding, plotting her revenge, but things don’t go according to plan when Bailey and Rhett get stuck on a private island in the middle of the cruise. They quickly realize that a lot of the tension between them comes from their mutual attraction and decide to act on it while stranded alone together. They intend to solve the mystery of who set Bailey up and why, but life isn’t so simple off of the island and unraveling the truth isn’t as easy as they’d hoped.
I really liked Bailey and her thirst for revenge. She had great ideas and wasn’t afraid to carry out her plan. Rhett was likable too but not as confident as Bailey, so he had some work to do on himself. Their story is silly and fun with a lot of heart. I’d like to thank the author for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
