The Shippers
A Novel
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- ¥1,700
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One of the hottest, fastest-rising rom-com stars delivers her latest swoon-worthy novel about a destination wedding on a cruise ship.
After a whole lifetime of being bad at love, JoJo Burton decides to solve her intimacy issues once and for all at her sister’s destination wedding on a cruise ship. With the help of a little pop psychology, she diagnoses herself with a fixation on the neighborhood guy who was her first crush and first kiss (and who just happens to be a newly-divorced wedding guest ), 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 Watts, 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 they team up for Project Conquest, 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, rescue each other over and over, and finally, at last, figure it all out in the most blissful, swoony, romantic way.
No one does summer romance quite like Katherine Center. THE SHIPPERS will take readers on the cruise of a lifetime in a story awash with romantic longing, top-notch banter, long-held secrets . . . and true love rediscovered.
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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.
