
The exploration of their marriage is emotionally satisfying, but a subplot involving implausible real estate dealings is hard to believe. Their hippie marriage counselor, along with adding a needed measure of comic relief, helps Dominic and Rosie realize they each played a role in the disintegration of their relationship. Rosie asks Dominic to go to marriage therapy, convinced he’ll never agree. Dominic knows that something has been amiss, but his own insecurities have led him to follow his father’s example: He works hard and provides and hopes the rest will work itself out. Rosie realizes they never talk anymore-she doesn’t know how to talk to him about the restaurant-and she decides their stagnant marriage must change if she’s going to change the rest of her life. Dominic and Rosie’s sex life is as explosive and satisfying as ever, but it also illustrates the holes in the rest of their marriage. She decides to pursue her dream of opening a restaurant specializing in the Argentinian cuisine she learned from her beloved mother. Ten years later, Rosie realizes she’s tired of working at the department store perfume counter. Rosie and Dominic Vega were middle school sweethearts who married right before Dominic deployed with the Army after high school. and it could demolish everything.A working-class couple on Long Island fights to save their marriage.

Except just as they're getting back on track, Rosie discovers Dom has a secret. As they complete one ridiculous-yet surprisingly helpful-assignment after another, their remodeled relationship gets stronger than ever. But to her surprise, he's all in, and it forces her to admit her own role in their cracked foundation. Dom talking about feelings? Sitting on pillows? Communing with nature? Learning love languages? Nope. Never in a million years did Rosie believe her stoic, too-manly-to-emote husband would actually agree to relationship rehab with a weed-smoking hippie. When her girlfriends encourage Rosie to demand more out of life and pursue her dream of opening a restaurant, she decides to demand more out of love, too.


Dom is faithful and a great provider, but the man she fell in love with ten years ago is nowhere to be found.

Now Rosie's lucky to get a caveman grunt from the ex-soldier every time she walks in the door. Rosie and Dominic Vega are the perfect couple: high school sweethearts, best friends, madly in love. New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey returns with a unique, sexy romantic comedy about a young married couple whose rocky relationship needs a serious renovation.
