Sharing a one-bedroom studio apartment the size of a postage stamp with a sexy stranger is not my brightest idea. I need sleep, not temptation. I’m a first-year intern at South General Hospital, and when I’m not working twenty-four hour shifts of pure emergency room adrenaline, I need a bed. A good one. This stranger and I already have a history. We got into such a brawl competing for the first apartment we both looked at that the manager kicked us both out. Nobody got it. Now there is only one furnished place left in our part of LA. We both want it, so we strike a deal. We’ll share. She gets the ultra-comfy mattress during the night while I’m at the hospital. It’s mine when she’s at work at her family’s deli chain. No problem, right? Except one evening I get sent home early after a devastating shift, and it turns out Nadia knows a thing or two about handling a crisis. And once I sleep with her cuddled in my arms, I know I’m in trouble. Because after we share the only bed in our place, there is no holding anything back. — Hold the Pickle is an unexpected roommate romantic comedy about a hot doctor, a deli worker, and the six cats she’s hiding under the bed. It’s a funny, steamy, heartfelt part of the Top 100 Pickleverse, but you do not have to read any other books before this one. You can begin your wild adventure with the Pickle family right here.