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Marriage? No, thanks!
Paperback
Publisher: Cristina B.
Published: Apr 22 2026
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Five dates. Zero sparks. One very high-stakes comic book.
Janet is a data architect who prefers the logical consistency of code to the messy variables of human interaction. She has a thriving career, a judgmental ginger cat named Jonesy, and a prize possession that defines her soul: a mint-condition, 1963 X-Men #1.
But Janet's mother, Eleanor, has other plans. Convinced that her daughter is one pediatric surgeon with a Golden Retriever away from a domestic epiphany, Eleanor pulls the ultimate power move: she locks Janet's precious comic in a high-security safe. The only way to get it back? Janet must survive five dates curated by The Agency-an elite matchmaking service run by a woman who wears enough turquoise to be seen from space.
To win her mutants back, Janet must endure ninety minutes of meaningful dialogue with a gauntlet of modern dating's finest disasters:
- The Fitness Freak: Who thinks an ice bath is a personality trait.
- The Crypto-Bro: Who wants to tokenize their potential relationship.
- The Mama's Boy: Who doesn't make a move without a three-way conference call.
- The Intellectual Snob: Who peer-reviews her hair and cites his red flags in MLA format.
- The Traditionalist: Who wants to trade her career for a walled garden and a calfskin binding.
Armed with a spreadsheet titled Operation_Endure_The_Agency.xlsx and a razor-sharp wit, Janet sets out to prove that some things aren't meant to be optimized.
Marriage? No, Thanks! is a satirical, fast-paced anti-romance for anyone who has ever been told they are too picky, anyone who prefers a server rack to a wedding rack, and anyone who knows that sometimes, the only perfect match is the one you find in a comic book shop.
Will Janet reclaim her inheritance, or will the Agency finally find a glitch in her single-girl programming?
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