My Best Friend's Honeymoon

Elsie Hoffman is eighteen months into an engagement to the boyfriend she met in college. Then she learns that he has planned their wedding and honeymoon without her, and she sees that she has settled for a future she never wanted. She calls the wedding off a week before the ceremony.

The honeymoon trip cannot be refunded, so Elsie takes her best friend, Ginny Holtz, to the Caribbean in her fiancé's place. Ginny has been in love with Elsie for almost as long as the engagement has lasted, and she has said nothing.

On the trip the two women make a bargain. For seven days Elsie gets to ask for anything she likes, in any place and in any way, provided she says it aloud. It starts small, with picking activities and posing for selfies.

The book is a sapphic romance built on friends-to-lovers tropes, and it keeps to a single week away from home. The wager leads somewhere neither woman planned for. What remains unsettled is whether the closeness they find on the island can hold once the honeymoon ends and ordinary life returns.