The Roommate

Clara Wheaton, a buttoned-up East Coast socialite, moves across the country to Los Angeles expecting to share a place with her childhood crush, only to find he has bailed and left her living with a stranger, Josh Darling. When she discovers that Josh is a well-known adult-film performer, the arrangement threatens to become her proper family's biggest scandal yet. Instead, the unlikely roommates bond over a shared belief that women deserve better, more honest pleasure, and turn that conviction into a sex-positive business venture that tests their chemistry and their hearts. Reviewers describe Rosie Danan's debut, the first Shameless novel, as a funny, very steamy and pointedly feminist romance.