Allison Ashley is een moeder van twee, een liefhebber van muziek en koffie, die van liefdesverhalen houdt. Overdag is ze apotheker in de oncologie, toegewijd aan het helpen van patiënten bij het navigeren door de moeilijkste momenten van het leven. Boeken zijn altijd haar uitlaatklep geweest, vooral verhalen over geluk, liefde en lachen, waardoor het onvermijdelijk was dat ze uiteindelijk haar eigen verhalen zou creëren. Ze belooft verhalen vol diepe romantiek, intense verbinding en humor, die altijd uitmonden in die felbegeerde 'happy ever after'.
When chronically ill Mia gets the opportunity to pursue her dream degree, her best friend Noah offers to marry her so she can quit her job to study full-time and still keep the medical insurance she needs, giving him two years to convince her that they actually belong together, forever.
All of the fun, none of the heartache...as long as they stick to the agreement. The proposition is simple: if ER nurse Claire Harper and her roommate, firefighter Graham Scott, are still single by the time they're forty, they'll take the proverbial plunge together...as friends with benefits. Maybe it's the wine, but in the moment, Claire figures the pact is a safe-enough deal, considering she hasn't had much luck in love and he's in no rush to settle down. Like, at all. Besides, there's no way she could ever really fall for Graham and his thrill-seeking ways. Not after what happened to her father... Just as things begin to heat up way before the proposed deadline, Graham's injured in a serious rock-climbing accident--and he needs Claire's help to heal. She'll do whatever it takes to nurse him back to health...even if it means moving into Graham's bed and putting up with his little dog who hates her. But with this no-strings arrangement taking a complicated turn, keeping "for now" from turning into "forever" isn't as easy as they'd planned.