Publication Date: July 7, 2026
When two polar opposites find themselves sharing a cabin for the summer, they lay down some ground rules to keep the peace—only to discover that one of those rules might be impossible to keep in this steamy new novel from the author of The Friendship Fling.
Dylan is the kind of person who is always fifteen minutes early and never leaves things to chance–so she can’t believe she’s about to spend six weeks on a last-minute trip to Wales that she didn’t plan, living in a cabin with a man she’s only met once.
Max always goes with the flow, and after his plus-one drops out of his all-expenses-paid travel influencer trip, he’s happy for his sister’s friend to take the spot. After all, from what he remembers of their brief meeting a year ago, Dylan is the kind of woman he’d be more than happy to spend some alone time with.
Not that anything is going to happen between them, because Dylan knows getting involved with this reckless, irrepressible flirt is the last thing she needs. So she makes a house rule: they are roommates only, and under no circumstances can anything . . . untoward . . . happen between them.
But as the days go by, Max starts to realize how much he enjoys chipping away at the walls Dylan hides herself behind, while Dylan begins to admit to herself that there may be more to Max than she first assumed. And before she knows it, she finds herself wondering if their “roommate rule” might be one rule she actually wants to break…
A six-week trip with her best friend’s brother may not be ideal, but it offers a way for Dylan to enjoy time away.
Author Georgia Stone serves up a forced proximity story full of sugar and spice in The Roommate Rule. Max and Dylan, despite meeting once before, are virtual strangers.
They seem to be polar opposites, with Dylan preferring structure while Max thrives on spontaneity. A lodging error offering only one bed serves up an interesting hurdle. To help navigate their cohabitation, Dylan develops a set of rules that includes a friends-only stipulation.
The author uses alternating perspectives to build the backgrounds for the characters. While he may seem relaxed and flirtatious, Max has navigated his share of trouble. It’s not until Dylan looks beneath the surface that she realizes there is more to Max than just a party boy.
The Roommate Rule follows the journey of two characters who must learn to trust in order to unlock a future together.
Georgia Stone is a London-based author of contemporary romance. She writes love stories that she hopes make people laugh out loud and clutch at their hearts in equal measure.
After dabbling in fan fiction as a teen growing up in rural Switzerland, she didn’t write her own stories for years, until one fateful day, she had the idea that sparked her debut novel. She fell back in love with writing and now very much appreciates that being a fiction author is essentially just a socially acceptable way of having imaginary friends.
When she’s not reading or writing, you can usually find her trying out DIY projects in her ridiculously colourful flat, spending far too much time feeding The Algorithm, or acting unhinged at gigs with her friends.
