THE HONEY-DON'T LIST

From the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling duo behind Twice in a Blue Moon and the "delectable, moving" (Entertainment Weekly) My Favorite Half-Night Stand comes a romantic tale about what happens when two assistants assigned to keeping a romance together start to find one of their own.

Carey Douglas has been working for celebrity home remodeling gurus Melissa and Rusty Tripp for nearly a decade - first in one of Melissa's boutiques, and later as the true brains behind her trademark décor - when she is asked to take on the biggest role to date: along with Rusty's uptight and supercilious assistant, Carey must keep the high profile and seemingly perfect Tripp marriage from falling apart in public until their book tour is over, and the second season of their home renovation show, Home Sweet Home, has been approved.

James McCann, MIT graduate and engineering genius, was originally hired as a structural engineer for the Tripp family business but more often has landed in the role of babysitter for the good ol' boy Rusty Tripp. The last straw comes in the form of his most recent job assignment: go on a book tour with the Tripps and their air-headed assistant Carey, and keep the wheels from falling off the proverbial bus.

In the privacy of their own minds, both Carey and James feel as though they are unable to simply quit: Carey would have nothing of her own to show for her design skills because the world thinks they were all Melissa's ideas. James has been promised a technical producer role in the second season of Home Sweet Home if he can just keep Rusty and Melly on track for a few more weeks. While dealing with the combustive couple on their book tour up the West Coast, Carey and James confide in each other and vow to work together to not only keep Melly and Rusty together, but keep their own jobs secure. But what will it take for them to discover that if they stop playing along - and start playing for keeps - they may get exactly what they've always wanted?