Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating

Hazel Bradford has exactly zero filters, one too many pets, and a talent for saying the most spectacularly wrong thing at the most spectacularly wrong moment — which is precisely why she and Josh Im are never, ever going to date.

Josh is steady, sensible, and quietly devastating in that way reserved for men who don't try too hard. Hazel is a magnificent disaster wrapped in good intentions and misplaced enthusiasm. Together, they make absolutely no sense. Together, they also can't seem to stop spending time together.

When the two former college acquaintances reconnect as adults, they strike a deal that sounds perfectly reasonable on paper: set each other up on blind dates, help the other find their ideal match, and keep things firmly in the friend zone. Simple. Foolproof. Completely, catastrophically doomed.

Because no matter how many terrible dates they survive, no matter how often they end up laughing until midnight or waking up in the same bed after a night goes sideways, Josh and Hazel keep insisting they're just friends. The grumpy-sunshine tension crackles off every page of this contemporary romance as two people who seem designed to drive each other wild slowly realize they might actually be designed for each other.

Christina Lauren delivers a romantic comedy that's equal parts laugh-out-loud funny and genuinely tender — because sometimes the most elaborate rules exist only to be gloriously, inevitably broken.