Shipped

This humorous, intelligent, and swoon-worthy story, which follows a workaholic marketing manager who is forced to go on a cruise with her arch-nemesis when they are up for the same promotion, is like The Unhoneymooners meets The Hating Game.

Marketing manager Henley Evans has a tough job at a cruise company and attends night school for her MBA. She hardly has time for herself, much alone friends, family, or dating. All of her hardships, however, appear to have paid off when she gets selected for the position she has always wanted.

The only issue? Graeme Crawford-Collins, her nemesis and distant social media manager, is also applying for the job. Despite never having met in person, their legendary email exchanges are the stuff of workplace myths.

Each of them is given a job by their supervisor to write a plan on how to increase Galápagos bookings; the best idea will be promoted. The hitch is that they have to go to the Galápagos Islands on a business cruise—all of them. Henley is startled to learn that the actual Graeme is nothing like she had anticipated when they first meet on the cruise. She quickly discovers that the boundary between liking and detesting is as thin as a postcard as they travel the Islands together.

Henley starts to second-guess her decisions in life as she becomes more attracted to the competition and pursues her professional goals. Because if you never really live, what good is it to labour constantly?

Shipped is a novel and captivating romantic comedy that is ideal for anyone who like Christina Lauren and Sally Thorne. It highlights the power of second chances and the wonder of fresh starts.