Dating was never supposed to be fun. Until Jack Morrison made breaking the rules feel like foreplay.

Love was never on Alice Thompson's to-do list. In fact, it was strictly forbidden by The Rules, her foolproof system designed to keep her life safe from emotional chaos.

Her dating method is a masterpiece of disaster: scare every man off before feelings have a chance to sneak in. Prenup papers on date one? Check. A gym catastrophe on date two that requires ice packs and awkward apologies? Double check. Emotional walls taller than the Empire State Building? Triple freaking check.

Then she meets Jack Morrison.

He is an artist with paint in his hair, a smile that should require a warning label, and the kind of patience that makes Alice want to scream. He is also everything she has spent years avoiding. So when she offers a no-feelings, friends-with-benefits deal, Jack agrees with one infuriating condition: she has to stop running from what she really wants.

What begins as a tactical misfire turns into a full-blown crisis of the heart when Jack kisses her like a man with no intention of letting go. One night of paint-splattered passion in his studio proves exactly how dangerous it is to keep things casual when the chemistry is nuclear and the clothes do not stay on.

Between a golden retriever who loves her more than she loves herself, a roommate who thinks game night is a full-contact sport, and one man determined to dismantle her perfectly planned life with a smile, Alice might finally let herself fall.

If you love Meghan Quinn's chaotic humor and Max Monroe's swoony, open-door romance, Bump and Run delivers steamy chemistry, laugh-out-loud banter, and a hero who will not quit even when she is determined to push him away.