❝ Having an extroverted twin is a real hazard to my mental health.❞

❝ Well, some of the best things in life don’t make sense. Not at first, anyway.❞

❝ Maybe second base wasn’t enough, maybe you need to take it all the way home.❞

❝ No matter how uncertain and unpredictable life gets, some people really do walk next to you forever. 

—Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love❞

❝ I go to sleep feeling happy in the bone-deep way that comes from doing nothing with the people who are everything.❞

It’s all fun and games until someone falls in love.

MANSION • APARTMENT • SHACK • HOUSE

Ruby Wynne is a staunch rule-follower who lives by the numbers. So when a surprising breakup – on her thirty-fifth birthday – ruins all her well-laid plans, Ruby makes an unexpected wish . . . Only to wake up inside a M.A.S.H. game from seventh grade.

Settled in a Technicolor mansion, driving a tie-dye Jeep, and running a roller-disco restaurant, Ruby is living out her childhood dreams come true—with one exception. According to the game, Ruby’s “other half” is supposed to be Penn Hayes, her brother’s annoying, and annoyingly handsome, best friend. But there’s zero romance between them. Just like in real life, all they share is sarcasm. With no rules to follow and desperate to return to reality, Ruby makes her best guess at an escape plan: win Penn’s heart so the game comes completely true and she can go home.

It’s unthinkable. On Ruby’s list of dos and don’ts, Penn Hayes is a lifelong don’t. But as Ruby navigates the magical world she dreamed up at thirteen, she wonders if, by finally throwing out her rules, she might just find her way home to the life and love she deserves.

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