Love Her Or Lose Her

Rosie and Dominic Vega met in school and have been married about ten years. The attraction between them has held up, but they have stopped talking. Rosie sells perfume at a department store on Long Island and wants to open a restaurant serving her late mother's Argentinian cooking, though she cannot find a way to raise it with him.

Dominic works construction. He follows his father's example: work hard, provide, and trust the rest to sort itself out. Since his Army service he has gone quiet, and Rosie no longer knows what he is thinking.

After a bad night, Rosie packs a bag, moves into her best friend's house and tells Dominic he must try marriage therapy. She expects a refusal. He says yes.

Their counselor is unconventional. She hands out odd assignments, bans sex for a time and has them study each other's love languages. The exercises show each of them how they let the marriage slip.

Just as they begin rebuilding, Rosie discovers that Dominic has kept a secret from her. This steamy contemporary romantic comedy follows a long marriage rather than a first romance. It is the second book in the Hot & Hammered series, after Fix Her Up.