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The Plus-One Pact: A Sapphic Romcom About Rivals, Romance, and a Fake Fiancée in Paradise
A sapphic romantic comedy with fake fiancées, one bed, wedding games, and enough slow-burn tension to melt a piña colada.
Jules Everhart has everything under control—except for the destination wedding that’s threatening to ruin her carefully curated reputation. Her longtime rival, Rowan Price, will be there. Alone. Perfect. Unbothered. And Jules? She panics and says she’s bringing her fiancée.
The problem? She doesn’t have one.
To save face, Jules ropes Rowan into a fake engagement for the weekend. In exchange, they’ll split the grand prize for “Couple of the Weekend.” Easy enough—until they’re sharing the Hibiscus Honeymoon Suite, completing increasingly intimate couple challenges, and kissing in front of actual human witnesses.
What started as a rivalry turns into a spark.
What started as pretend starts to feel dangerously real.
The Plus-One Pact is a warm and witty romantic comedy about two women faking a relationship in paradise—and accidentally falling for the one person they swore they couldn’t stand.
Fake Dating, Enemies-to-Lovers, Forced Proximity, Wedding Shenanigans, Only One Bed, Found Family, and slow-burn queer longing with a happy ending.
Jules Everhart has everything under control—except for the destination wedding that’s threatening to ruin her carefully curated reputation. Her longtime rival, Rowan Price, will be there. Alone. Perfect. Unbothered. And Jules? She panics and says she’s bringing her fiancée.
The problem? She doesn’t have one.
To save face, Jules ropes Rowan into a fake engagement for the weekend. In exchange, they’ll split the grand prize for “Couple of the Weekend.” Easy enough—until they’re sharing the Hibiscus Honeymoon Suite, completing increasingly intimate couple challenges, and kissing in front of actual human witnesses.
What started as a rivalry turns into a spark.
What started as pretend starts to feel dangerously real.
The Plus-One Pact is a warm and witty romantic comedy about two women faking a relationship in paradise—and accidentally falling for the one person they swore they couldn’t stand.
Fake Dating, Enemies-to-Lovers, Forced Proximity, Wedding Shenanigans, Only One Bed, Found Family, and slow-burn queer longing with a happy ending.
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Published April 7, 2025
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June 25, 2026
Jules and Rowan were each others’ nemesis at college, each fighting to get the top spot in all their classes. Their approaches were different.
Rowan was a scholarship girl, from a working class family, and she had a chip on her shoulder about it. She was naturally talented, and so didn’t have to work as hard as Jules, but she was highly competitive, and so fought every corner. But underneath the ambitious exterior was always a love of their bickering and arguing.
Jules was not as naturally talented as Rowan, but she made up the difference with hard work, with organisation and planning. Jules was the master of the colour-coded spreadsheet, of the per-minute plans and of leaving nothing to chance. It was exhausting, meaning Jules was always ‘on’, always in performance mode. This is also the trait that made anything between her and Rowan so difficult. How much of what Jules said was performance?
Both women are frightened of the hidden, fallow feelings when they meet five years later at their friend’s wedding, coming as fake fiancées because both were too frightened to be there alone.
This is a good story, but surprisingly shallow emotionally, even though I thought it could have gone further. Both women feel OCD, but especially Jules. I really got to like Rowan and her gentle detachment. Jules, however, sometimes made me grit my teeth in quiet anger.
A good story for a quick read in a fake fiancée trope.
Rowan was a scholarship girl, from a working class family, and she had a chip on her shoulder about it. She was naturally talented, and so didn’t have to work as hard as Jules, but she was highly competitive, and so fought every corner. But underneath the ambitious exterior was always a love of their bickering and arguing.
Jules was not as naturally talented as Rowan, but she made up the difference with hard work, with organisation and planning. Jules was the master of the colour-coded spreadsheet, of the per-minute plans and of leaving nothing to chance. It was exhausting, meaning Jules was always ‘on’, always in performance mode. This is also the trait that made anything between her and Rowan so difficult. How much of what Jules said was performance?
Both women are frightened of the hidden, fallow feelings when they meet five years later at their friend’s wedding, coming as fake fiancées because both were too frightened to be there alone.
This is a good story, but surprisingly shallow emotionally, even though I thought it could have gone further. Both women feel OCD, but especially Jules. I really got to like Rowan and her gentle detachment. Jules, however, sometimes made me grit my teeth in quiet anger.
A good story for a quick read in a fake fiancée trope.
May 4, 2025
Torn, because I really liked some of the writing but there were more holes in the plot than in a colander! There either was no one alpha reading or no human was actually involved in writing this book because the errors, not grammar or spelling, but basic plot or character use were glaring…… If this was written by someone trying to improve craft I would love to help because as I say, some great bits……. Or it was based on other books with great bits that have been “learned” from! The author is releasing a lot of books in short succession….. maybe slow down the releases and fully develop each one!.
July 7, 2025
I should have read the reviews before downloading this one. It has potential but I agree with the other reviews, the plot holes are so big we lost all the characters down them. I hope the author is able to learn from this book and improve for future.
May 12, 2025
The story itself was an interesting one, but there was a lot missing or just plan inconsistent from the plot. As another review pointed out, grammar and spelling were on point which leads me to believe that the mistakes in plot are either due to this being AI or just not alpha's or beta read. There was a character that popped in and out, details that the MCs specifically knew about each other that they miraculously forgot about at the end of the book. There was also confusion on how all of the characters even knew each other; at one point they knew each other in college and in another scene they are speaking as if they hadn't met before the wedding.
July 13, 2025
writing is solid from page to page, but it was really hard for me to buy into the premise 🥲 I was under the impression she lied about the fiancée to impress Rowan, but then she asks Rowan to be her fiancée without really addressing that point? And then Rowan’s POV did not super enlighten me. But my 2⭐️ isn’t because of bad prose or bad characters, just an unbelievable motivation and perhaps a cardboard protag
May 27, 2026
The Plus-One Pact
First time reading this author and I loved this sweet love story. Looking forward to reading more of this author's books. So get her books and support her by leaving your reviews.
First time reading this author and I loved this sweet love story. Looking forward to reading more of this author's books. So get her books and support her by leaving your reviews.
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