Appropriate Behavior

When newlywed Abbi Edwards moves into her husband's mansion, she thinks the hardest part will be learning which fork to use at dinner parties. She's wrong.
Fresh from her honeymoon and desperate to fit into Kirk's sophisticated world, Abbi finds herself navigating not just marble countertops and staff meetings, but a household assistant who seems determined to manage every aspect of her life-including her friendships.
Between stress-baking disasters that achieve sentience and conducting scientific studies on fountain acoustics to avoid emotional conversations, Abbi's tendency to spiral into hilarious tangents becomes both her coping mechanism and her charm. But when her best friend Betsy comes to visit, a simple afternoon by the pool becomes a crisis that threatens everything Abbi has worked to build.
Caught between the woman who taught her to love herself and the man who wants to help her grow, Abbi must figure out how to honor both relationships without losing herself in the process-all while maintaining her sanity and her right to be appropriately ridiculous.
This is a story about finding balance between structure and freedom, between becoming better and staying true to who you are. It's about learning that the right kind of love doesn't ask you to choose between growth and authenticity-it helps you discover they're the same thing.
A contemporary romance featuring domestic discipline, emotional growth, spiral-worthy dialogue, and the kind of friendship that survives even the most inappropriate dinner party stories.
For mature readers. Contains consensual adult discipline and themes of personal growth within intimate relationships.