I liked Wedding Dashers so I was excited to read McBreen’s latest release, Sunk in Love. It’s about a couple whose marriage is in trouble and they get invited to go on a cruise with her family. They decide to pretend that everything is fine! While I found parts of it sad (when they’re struggling with their marriage), it was special to watch them fall back in love.

Roslyn and Liam were married for five years but started to have trouble after Roslyn’s mother died in the past year. She asked Liam for a divorce three months ago and he moved out, but they never told her family. Now her family has invited them on a ten-day Hawaiian cruise to celebrate her grandparents vow renewal ceremony and they want Liam to officiate! Roslyn asks Liam if he will come on the cruise with her and pretend they are still together. He is a busy doctor but he surprises her and says yes!

The story alternates between present and the past, from the time they met to the time when Roslyn asked Liam to move out. My favorite parts are in the present time, on the cruise, when they share a room and do fun vacation things with her family. It’s romantic when Liam helps Roslyn on a jungle hike and also with the zip line and things get steamy. Roslyn quit med school to become a romance author and her grandfather is disappointed in her and reminds her of it often. Her mother died a year ago when their car was hit by a drunk driver and Roslyn has been struggling ever since. She wants to be able to talk with Liam about it but he is working long hours and she thinks he’s avoiding her. Liam’s father was abusive and he hasn’t seen him in fifteen years so he has some trauma too.

They have some fun memories from their past when they got matching tattoos and when Liam made her his special homemade lasagna, but a lot of their past is sad when their marriage fell apart and many of their conversations are angsty. It began to feel repetitive to me but the cruise was festive and it was really sweet to see them find their way back to each other. Also, Roslyn’s brother and sisters add some lighter moments to the story and some more serious ones when they talk about their mother dying.

Readers that would enjoy a spicy, angsty, second chance romance with fun cruise activities and some family drama might have fun with this.