Olivia never wanted to attend the couples’ retreat. But when her husband, Ryan, insists that the weekend will save their failing marriage, she reluctantly agrees to join an exclusive getaway where wealthy couples exchange partners under the guise of rekindling passion.
She expects awkward conversations, forced smiles, and two miserable nights pretending everything is fine.
She doesn’t expect Jake.
Jake is the husband of her closest friend, Mia—a man Mia has spent years describing as predictable, emotionally distant, and hopelessly dull. Yet the Jake Olivia encounters is nothing like that description. He is charming, calculating, and unnervingly perceptive. He notices every hesitation, every hidden frustration, and every glance Olivia thinks nobody sees.
And from the moment their names are drawn together for the retreat’s first partner exercise, Jake seems determined to get beneath her skin.
Meanwhile, Ryan begins behaving like a man who has something to prove. His sudden attentiveness, possessiveness, and growing hostility toward Jake expose cracks in their marriage that Olivia can no longer ignore.
Mia, who has always appeared to have the perfect marriage, becomes increasingly unsettled. Her carefully rehearsed smile falters whenever Jake looks at Olivia. Her jealousy grows more obvious, and her desperate attempts to control the weekend suggest that she knows far more about the retreat than she admits.
Then Olivia discovers that the partner assignments may not have been random.
Private conversations have been recorded. Couples have been secretly investigated. And certain guests appear to have arrived with hidden agendas that have nothing to do with saving their marriages.
As attraction turns into suspicion and the weekend descends into psychological warfare, Olivia must decide whom she can trust: the husband who brought her there, the man who seems to understand her too well, or the friend whose entire marriage may be built on a lie.
Because the most dangerous secret at the retreat isn't who wants to sleep with whom.
It's who arranged the swap—and what they intend to destroy before the weekend ends.
Olivia never wanted to attend the couples’ retreat. But when her husband, Ryan, insists that the weekend will save their failing marriage, she reluctantly agrees to join an exclusive getaway where wealthy couples exchange partners under the guise of rekindling passion.
She expects awkward conversations, forced smiles, and two miserable nights pretending everything is fine.
She doesn’t expect Jake.
Jake is the husband of her closest friend, Mia—a man Mia has spent years describing as predictable, emotionally distant, and hopelessly dull. Yet the Jake Olivia encounters is nothing like that description. He is charming, calculating, and unnervingly perceptive. He notices every hesitation, every hidden frustration, and every glance Olivia thinks nobody sees.
And from the moment their names are drawn together for the retreat’s first partner exercise, Jake seems determined to get beneath her skin.
Meanwhile, Ryan begins behaving like a man who has something to prove. His sudden attentiveness, possessiveness, and growing hostility toward Jake expose cracks in their marriage that Olivia can no longer ignore.
Mia, who has always appeared to have the perfect marriage, becomes increasingly unsettled. Her carefully rehearsed smile falters whenever Jake looks at Olivia. Her jealousy grows more obvious, and her desperate attempts to control the weekend suggest that she knows far more about the retreat than she admits.
Then Olivia discovers that the partner assignments may not have been random.
Private conversations have been recorded. Couples have been secretly investigated. And certain guests appear to have arrived with hidden agendas that have nothing to do with saving their marriages.
As attraction turns into suspicion and the weekend descends into psychological warfare, Olivia must decide whom she can trust: the husband who brought her there, the man who seems to understand her too well, or the friend whose entire marriage may be built on a lie.
Because the most dangerous secret at the retreat isn't who wants to sleep with whom.
It's who arranged the swap—and what they intend to destroy before the weekend ends.
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