Bad at Love

What happens when two best friends decide to date each other as an experiment? BAD AT LOVE is a standalone friends-to-lovers romance from the NYT bestselling author of The Royals Next Door and Grave Matter.

She's a free-spirited and disaster-prone beekeeper.

He's a British commitment-phobic playboy.

Together, they're about to rewrite the rules of love.

Marina is brilliant, blonde, and brutally honest—sometimes too honest. Her lack of filter and endearing clumsiness mean most men in LA don't make it past the third date. To make matters more complicated, she's still a virgin and convinced she'll never crack the code of love, let alone find someone to give her V-card to.

Her best friend Lazarus is her complete opposite. Tall, tattooed, and pierced (where it counts) Laz is both a rockstar and a gone-viral poet that has women (and book deals) falling at his feet. But the serial monogamist gets bored quickly and has never committed to anyone for longer than a few months.

When Marina's latest dating disaster leaves her more hopeless than ever, Laz proposes an unconventional solution: he'll give her dating and intimacy lessons. They'll date each other as an experiment to figure out exactly what's going wrong.

On paper, it's the perfect plan. In reality, things get complicated fast. As they navigate their own trauma and hangups, Marina and Laz discover that the line between friendship and something deeper isn't as clear as they thought.

They might be bad at love, but they're even worse at pretending they're still just friends.