Happy Place By Emily Henry

Harriet and Wynn have been the perfect couple since they met in college, as compatible as salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. They broke up five months ago.

I haven't even told my best friend yet. Thus, they share a bedroom in a cottage in Maine that has been a retreat for a group of friends every year for the past decade. An annual respite from the world.

There they spend a week in vibrant bliss, away from their daily lives, eating copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood, and soaking up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them best. Only this year, Harriet and Winn are lying through their teeth, trying not to let each other realize how desperately they still want each other. It's the last week that the cottage is for sale and this is the last time they can all be together in this place.

They can't bear to break their friends' hearts, so they play their parts. Harriet becomes the surgical resident who never picks a fight, and Winn becomes the laid-back charmer who never lets up. It's a perfect plan (if seen from afar with sunscreen-stained sunglasses). We've loved each other for years and only a week.... How difficult it is to fake it in front of the people who know you best.