Friends With Benefits

Evie Bloom needs health insurance to accept a dream career fellowship, and her lifelong best friend, Theo Cohen, desperately needs a marital loophole to save his rent-controlled apartment. Proposing a practical marriage of convenience seems like the ultimate logical solution to their individual crises. It is an arrangement designed to offer financial relief and breathing room without shaking the platonic foundation they have relied on for years. Yet, logic rarely survives proximity when deeper feelings are involved. While Evie is fundamentally opposed to the idea of marriage, Theo has secretly harbored lingering feelings for his best friend for a long time. Signing the papers is supposed to change nothing, but sharing a life—and a lease—threatens to rewrite the rules of their entire relationship