The Plus-One Agreement

Freelance photographer Maya is very good at being useful and less practised at attending a wedding with nothing to do. Adrian, a software founder learning to let go of control, would like his brother to stop treating his love life as an unfinished project. When their friends announce a wedding, arriving together seems like a sensible way to quiet everyone else's suggestions.

They write down their terms over coffee: no professional favours, no invented history, ask before touching, and either person can stop. What begins as a little social camouflage becomes flower-market mornings, late noodles and the pleasure of being listened to without being fixed. Then a private page becomes a public joke, and Adrian makes the wrong choice at precisely the moment Maya needs him to make the right one.

Now the arrangement that made everything easier is the thing standing between them. With a wedding to celebrate and their own boundaries to keep, Maya and Adrian must decide what they want when there is no agreement left to hide behind. An urban romance about consent, embarrassment, honest apologies and a first date that finally means what it says.