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Stan wants to forget. Nil wants to stop feeling.
And Em wants to fix people who need a fix.
Stan’s a heartbroken wreck. After watching the love of his life marry someone else, he needs to lose himself fast. So screw it, he signs up for a sketchy drug trial in international waters. It’ll risk relapse, but it’s way better than opening up in therapy. Besides, he gets a sexy scientist to bug and a haunted hottie for a roomie.
That’s Nil, who’s fresh from a coma with barely any memories and too many scars from a foggy past he’s not ready to face. But between Stan and Em, he might feel alive again.
Em’s the ice-cold neuroscientist running the trial. The drug users are data points. The ship, a lab. But Stan refuses to be ignored, and Nil holds the answers she needs.
But soon, bodies turn up blue. The ship’s a death trap, and someone on board’s bloodthirsty. But hey, Stan’s had worse foreplay.
Hard Pill to Swallow is an MMF dark romcom around a murder mystery at sea with two broken men who want each other and the woman who was never supposed to feel a thing.