Retirement was supposed to be peaceful -- until the happiness police showed up!

Retirement in the South of France isn't all it's cracked up to be. After fifty years of marriage, the only thing Mavis and Jeff agree on is that it's too late to change.

Enter the maverick and flirtatious Rémy, sent to prove them wrong. When he asks the Toulouse Club for English Pensioners to help oversee clinical trials for a revolutionary happiness drug, little does anyone know he is a World Happiness Organisation (WHO) agent, armed with their files.

But Rémy also faces a dilemma. The new drug is part of a covert scheme to monetise happiness, violating the Organisation's founding principles, and his boss is about to find out...

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• Publication Date: September 19, 2024
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