The Marriage Game by Heather Miekstyn

Love never fails…supposedly.

Jill and Max’s love story has already been written. After all, they’ve been married for almost 17 years. That means they’re meant to be in the “and they lived happily ever after” stage of things…Only, happily ever after isn’t as happy as Jill expected. Instead, Max is working more than he’s home, she’s become her kids’ chauffeur, date night has all but disappeared, and— oh yeah— she has wrinkles, cellulose, and a pelvic floor that seems determined to give out on her. She’s not exactly living sexily ever after either.

Still, Jill is nothing if not a fighter. Determined to get her marriage back on track, she convinces Max to go on a marriage retreat. But when the keynote speaker at the retreat decides their marriage needs some special attention, Jill and Max both balk at the idea, concerned for their public image and offended by her insinuations about the state of their union. Together they hatch a plan to prove just how wrong she is about their marriage: up the PDA, flirt non-stop, and stop fighting.

They’ll only have to play this marriage game for a few days; how hard can it be? Then again, games for two usually end with both players losing their hearts.