Compulsively Yours

Libi Newman avoids serious relationships. Her relationship OCD makes every romance feel uncertain, so she sticks to casual hookups, where there is nothing to ruin. She is also still mourning her mother, who died recently, so her weekly OCD support group is one of the few places where she feels steady. There, Nate Keller, who is working through his own contamination OCD, has quietly had a crush on her for months. He insists that the two of them are only friends, and he says he is fine with that.

When Libi's grandparents invite the family to their anniversary at a timeshare in Mexico, the trip turns out to be anything but relaxing. Her father, a widower, is bringing a new girlfriend. Her former college boyfriend, the one she never really moved on from, arrives with her least favorite cousin. Nate offers to come along for moral support, so Libi won't have to get through the week alone.

What starts as a promise to help one another soon becomes a pretend relationship. Nate is far too convincing as her boyfriend, and as the lies pile up, Libi struggles to tell her own feelings apart. Are the sunset walks changing how she sees him, or does she truly want something real with Nate?

This contemporary romance follows the friends-to-lovers, fake-dating and forced-proximity formulas, and it portrays OCD and grief with a light, witty tone.