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On His Days Off
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 9 2026
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ellie Shaw flies to a Jamaica resort for a peaceful romantic getaway with her partner-not hunting love, just hoping to feel like a couple again. Tom stays in the room, drinks, scrolls, declines every plan. Little by little Ellie goes out alone.
Then she meets Malik Reid, a cook whose days off become the only honest hours of her holiday. He shows her life beyond the all-inclusive gate-markets, family yards, roads the tour buses skip-while Tom grows softer, drunker, easier to leave behind. Ellie encourages the drinking so she can slip out. She knows what she's doing. She does it anyway.
When she returns to London, the messages don't stop. Visa friction, money, family skepticism, and the guilt of wanting more nearly break them. *On His Days Off* is a closed-door contemporary romance about choosing the island-and the man-after the holiday ends.
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