Hot Mess Express

When financial analyst Zoe Carter boards the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, she's focused on one thing: landing the partnership that will secure her future. What she's not prepared for is sharing a cramped train roomette with Liam Edwards-the college boyfriend who shattered her heart three years ago by choosing his career over their relationship.

Thanks to a computer glitch that feels suspiciously like cosmic intervention, they're stuck together for eighteen hours of forced proximity. Between:

• Coffee disasters that drench conference room presentations • Emergency evacuations in inappropriate sleepwear
• Bathroom imprisonment that leads to intimate confessions • Viral internet fame from the world's most romantic business call • Meddling passengers who've been married for seventy-eight years

Zoe discovers that Liam isn't the same man who walked away. He's become someone willing to uproot his entire life for love-specifically, her love. But she's built careful walls around her heart, and trusting him again means risking everything she's worked to protect.

Can two people who specialize in beautiful disasters create something lasting?

Perfect for readers who love: • Forced proximity with maximum chaos • Second chance romance with genuine growth • Enemies to lovers energy between exes • Fish out of water scenarios on public transportation • Viral fame meet-cutes gone wonderfully wrong • Family interference from both sides • Small spaces, big feelings emotional intensity

From emergency wedding party duties to meeting the parents 2.0, from cross-country moves to surprise pregnancies, Zoe and Liam's journey proves that the best love stories don't follow the script-they create beautiful chaos and call it destiny.

A laugh-out-loud contemporary romance about learning that sometimes the best relationships are built on a foundation of perfectly imperfect disasters, starring two people brave enough to choose love over fear.