The Shippers
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- Lanzamiento previsto: 19 may 2026
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- 6,49 €
Descripción editorial
'The wedding romance you need' People
She thought she'd charted her course ... until love came on board.
After a whole lifetime of being bad at love, JoJo Burton decides to solve her commitment issues once and for all at her sister's destination wedding on a cruise ship. Her longtime crush and first ever kiss (who just happens to be newly-divorced) will be on board, and she decides to woo him during the cruise for some long-delayed closure.
Only problem is, her sister's a little busy being a bride at the moment-so JoJo ropes in her childhood bestie, Cooper, to be her wing man.
Cooper: who RSVPed no, but then showed up, anyway. Cooper: who left town without a word four years earlier and moved to London. Cooper: who was, if she's honest, the worst heartbreak of JoJo's life. It's bliss for her to see him again, and it's agony, too - and the more time they spend together, the more she obsesses over questions she can't bring herself to ask.
Shipboard antics ensue in this witty, heart-tugging, childhood-friends-to-lovers romance - as JoJo and Cooper fake flirt, slow dance, share a cabin, sing duets, treat sunburns, get jealous, and rescue each other over and over again...
PRAISE FOR NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER KATHERINE CENTER
'My perfect 10 of a book. As funny and sweet as all the very best nineties rom-coms, but with Center's signature heart-tugging depth . . . A shot of pure joy.' EMILY HENRY, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers
'Serious Nora Ephron vibes.' TAYLOR JENKINS REID, #1 bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
'Katherine Center crafts rom-coms with pure unvarnished delight' CHRISTINA LAUREN, #1 bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Center (The Love Haters) sets this beguiling contemporary aboard a weeklong cruise. Middle school math teacher JoJo Burton has left a string of broken hearts in her wake, most recently when she dumped her fiancé at the altar at the encouragement of her childhood best friend, Cooper Watts. Jojo's sister, Ashley, diagnoses her inability to commit as stemming from her having "imprinted" on Finn Turner, the boy with whom she shared her first kiss at 10 years old, and cooks up a scheme to help JoJo win over Finn, who will be attending Ashley's cruise ship wedding. Cooper, who is also unexpectedly in attendance despite having RSVPed no, thinks the entire plan is bonkers and repeatedly comes to Jojo's rescue, for example during awkward mini-golf outings and dance contests. It's clear early on that Cooper and JoJo are the ones with real chemistry, but their relationship is still strained from when Cooper ghosted Jojo for a job in London four years before the start of the book, and she's hesitant to trust him again. Center employs the forced proximity trope to excellent effect in bringing these two back together, and the characters' sparkling banter effortlessly captures their long-standing intimacy. It's a joy to watch their friends-to-lovers journey unfold.
