Terms and Conditions of Love
Mara Chen does not do chaos. As a meticulous privacy lawyer in London, she has rules, red pens, and a very good reason to keep her personal life off the record. Kit Rowan does not do stillness. As the brilliant, distractible founder of Candid — a dating app that promises radical honesty — he has a gift for charm, a horror of legal language, and a burnout he hasn't told anyone about. When Mara is hired to keep Kit's company launch-ready and legally intact, she expects a short, professional engagement. She does not expect the journalist who photographs them mid-argument and captions it 'Rowan and his lawyer-girlfriend.' She especially does not expect the board to decide the fake-couple headline is worth eighteen points of pre-registration growth. Now they have a conduct agreement, a shared flat, an office dog named Clause, and a product launch bearing down on both of them. The problem is that the more Mara learns about Kit — the real Kit, the exhausted one, the one who drops his performance at two a.m. over a kitchen table full of legal redlines — the harder it is to remember which parts are in the contract. Smart, sharp, and genuinely funny, Terms and Conditions of Love is a romantic comedy about two people who built their lives around being difficult to know, learning that being known is not the same as being exposed. For fans of Emily Henry, Helen Hoang, and anyone who has ever tried to write a relationship into a spreadsheet and watched it refuse to comply. Free sample available.