LOVE AD HOC IN SUNNY BANGKOK

(A high-strung wedding planner and a carefree Thai tour guide team up for a chaotic, romantic island-hopping adventure where every mishap might just be fate)

By: EMILY R. TOWNSEND

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Emma Hartley’s perfectly planned life implodes somewhere between the airport carousel and a suspiciously aggressive tuk tuk driver. She arrives in Bangkok with no luggage, no hotel booking, and no fiancé, just a heatwave, a bad case of jetlag, and an unshakable suspicion that the universe is laughing at her.

Enter Kit Srisuk: a maddeningly laid-back Thai tour guide whose “mai pen rai” (no worries) approach is the exact opposite of Emma’s colour-coded spreadsheet existence. He’s infuriating. He’s charming. He knows all the hidden gems she can’t find on Google Maps. And now, thanks to an ill-advised team-up, he’s her partner for an island-hopping adventure from the jungles of Koh Chang to the coral reefs of the Similans.

Between monkey pickpockets, bioluminescent midnight kayaking, mud-sliding elephant baths, and a royal mix-up that has half the country convinced Emma’s an undercover princess, things get chaotic fast. And when a yacht-owning blast from her past (and Kit’s sworn rival) shows up, the trip turns into a tropical rom-com showdown, complete with mistaken identities, market haggling lessons, underwater rescues, and sunsets that seem determined to play Cupid.

From Bangkok’s lantern-lit festivals to remote coves where the only sound is the whisper of waves, Emma discovers that sometimes the best itineraries are the ones you throw away. But can a high-strung wedding planner and a man who lives entirely in the moment turn a holiday fling into the greatest adventure of all?

Pack your sarong, ditch your schedule, and hop aboard Love Ad Hoc in Sunny Bangkok, a sparkling, laugh-out-loud, slow-burn romance where chaos is just another word for fate.