The Reunion Clause: A Fake-Date Romantic Comedy

Avery Lane has survived bad clients, brutal deadlines, and one spectacularly humiliating almost-romance she has spent fifteen years pretending did not matter.

But her high school reunion is another problem entirely.

Showing up alone would be inconvenient. Showing up vulnerable would be unthinkable. So Avery does what any emotionally composed, spreadsheet-brained crisis consultant would do: she hires a professional stand-in.

The Stand-In Society provides emergency plus-ones, fake dates, family-...