Help! We Joined a Cult by Accident

Sean Baskin can’t finish anything. Not film school, not a relationship, not even the grief of burying his father.

So when Solena, his late father’s longtime partner and the woman who raised him, needs a "bonded partner" to claim her free spot at Tidewell, the most exclusive wellness retreat on earth, he agrees to pose as her boyfriend.He has never once managed to tell her no.

The cover story is a couple in love. The reality is a remote island, surrendered passports, a serene staff who confiscate your phone "to release the surface world," and a guru named Caspian who always speaks in the same strangely off-putting voice.

Tidewell is a cult, and the only currency that buys your way home is climbing its convoluted couples’ rites, all of which seem engineered to rub two people together until the wiring crosses.

Sean and Solena turn out to be very, very good at faking it.

They’re not nearly as good at knowing when to stop…