The Shippers by Katherine Center

Get ready to set sail with one of the rom-com world’s fastest-rising stars in a swoony, sunshine-soaked love story set aboard a destination wedding cruise.

JoJo Burton has officially decided she is done being terrible at love. Her solution? Use her sister’s destination wedding cruise as the perfect floating laboratory to finally solve her intimacy issues once and for all. Armed with a little pop psychology and a lot of determination, JoJo diagnoses her problem: she’s still hung up on the neighborhood boy who was her first crush… and her first kiss. Conveniently (or fatefully?), he’s also a newly divorced guest on the cruise.

Her plan: charm him, conquer him, and finally get the closure she’s been waiting for.

There’s just one snag—her sister is busy, you know, getting married. So JoJo recruits her childhood best friend, Cooper Watts, to act as her wingman.

Yes, that Cooper Watts.
The one who RSVPed no… and showed up anyway.
The one who moved to London without warning four years ago.
The one responsible for the biggest heartbreak of JoJo’s life.

Seeing him again feels a little like sunshine… and a little like stepping on a Lego.

But as they team up for “Project Conquest,” things get complicated fast. Fake flirting turns suspiciously real. One slow dance leads to another. Suddenly they’re sharing a cabin, singing duets, rescuing each other from awkward moments (and sunburns), and trying very hard not to notice the sparks flying everywhere.

Cue the shipboard chaos.

Packed with laugh-out-loud banter, childhood-friends-to-lovers tension, long-buried secrets, and a whole lot of heart, this sparkling summer romance proves that sometimes the love you’re searching for has been right beside you all along.

Because when it comes to unforgettable summer love stories, no one does it quite like Katherine Center—and The Shippers is the cruise you won’t want to miss.