Ship Happens (Valentine's Inc Cruises #3)

Okay, yes, another deviation from my TBR piles, but in all fairness, this series (Cruises) is linked to the Valentine's Inc series (a lot of the same authors were invited to contribute, the whole cupid company idea is the same, and a lot of the side characters in the original series are now main characters in this one) and each book has a cute ship-themed title. The third book in this series is titled "Ship Happens," and it's by Pandora Pine. ((yes, I'm reading them out of order again--I'm maximizing my time here, people)).

["Photographer Upton Sanders is a proverbial third wheel. Still single after his best friend met the love of his life on the Valentine’s Inc. dating app, Upton assumes he’ll be alone forever. Everything changes when his friends surprise him with a week-long singles cruise.

Travel agent Walsh Dunne has never left the state of North Carolina. With the ink on his hospitality degree still wet, he embarks on the S.S. Neptune to learn about the cruise industry and the ship’s exotic ports of call. It isn’t until a chance encounter with Upton that Walsh learns this is no ordinary cruise.

Excited to attend the Ship Happens dating events, Upton has zero luck meeting the man of his dreams. The one man he is forever running into, Walsh, keeps rescuing him from sticky situations. Finished with the vain men he’s met so far, Upton and Walsh team up to explore the islands.

Sparks fly between the men, making them think a relationship in the real world is possible. Back on shore, both men are excited about the future, until an emergency calls Walsh back home.

Can the star-crossed lovers find a way back to each other? Or will their love go down with the ship?"]

This book was soooo cute!!! Walsh fought the attraction and the chemistry for like half a day, but Upton was hard to resist. ;) They we’re best friends by the second day, and dated with sweet goodnight kisses until the last night on the boat. Spoiler alert city (at least they were minor and vague). 

There’s a little bit of a trigger warning (a little? It was kinda big—-domestic abuse), and I really thought the abuser would appear in the book after the prologue, but spoiler alert, he didn’t.

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