Casa Paradiso

Ninety minutes down the coast road from Cancún, between the jungle and the Caribbean, there is a sixty-suite resort of white stucco and pale limestone: a palapa-roofed main house, a long infinity pool that seems to run into the sea, a cold, clear cenote at the end of a jungle path, and a glass bowl of bracelets on the front desk. White means looking. Coral means touching. Turquoise means everything. The desk explains the colours in the same voice as the breakfast hours, and a couple can change theirs at any time.

Casa Paradiso is a series of standalone, very grown-up love stories about long-married couples who book a week in the sun and try something they have only ever talked about. Each book is a different marriage arriving at the same resort: mortgages, anniversaries, kids at home with Grandma, and a curiosity about each other that never quite went away. The bracelet is a signal to the other guests, never a contract between the spouses: they still ask each other, at every step.

The marriage is never in danger; that is the point. No cheating, no jealousy as the engine, no one walking away. Just two people who know each other very well discovering there is more to know, written with warmth, humour and the door wide open. Every couple flies home more in love than when they landed. Most readers begin with Dared to Swap.

Each book is a complete interconnected standalone with a different couple, a guaranteed HEA. Read in any order.