36.5 Hours

Spoof Romcom Inspired by the Movie 365 Days

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Genres

Slow Burn, Friends To Lovers, Kidnap Romance, Forced Proximity, Comedy Romance, New Adult, Novels, Debut, and Contemporary

Trigger Warnings

Profanity

Type of Ending

Series

Virgin Demi — Book 1

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Reader Spots Remaining

100

Number of days to read

Publication Date

May 1, 2026

Page Length

90 pages

Available Formats

ePub and PDF

36.5 Hours

Spoof Romcom Inspired by the Movie 365 Days

Published Copy

Blurb

They called me Virgin Demi. I called in a kidnapping to fix it.

Demi is 20, hopelessly romantic, and thoroughly tired of being the punchline of everyone else's joke. Her solution? A military-grade, six-step, sleeping-tablet-assisted plan to lose her virginity with someone she trusts.

It goes wrong at step one.

Instead of her best friend, she gets the wrong person—the one she's spent five years carefully avoiding. Now they're locked in a countryside bungalow for 36.5 hours with nowhere to hide, nothing to do but talk, and five years of unfinished business that refuses to stay buried.

Inspired by the film 365 Days—but make it British, make it funny, and cut it down to 36.5 hours.

Details

Genres

Slow Burn, Friends To Lovers, Kidnap Romance, Forced Proximity, Comedy Romance, New Adult, Novels, Debut, and Contemporary

Trigger Warnings

Profanity

Type of Ending

Series

Virgin Demi — Book 1

Author Prefers A Review On

Amazon

Reader Spots Remaining

100

Number of days to read

Publication Date

May 1, 2026

Page Length

90 pages

Available Formats

ePub and PDF

Author

Vanessa Rhimes is a Franco-British author of romantic comedies who writes the kind of stories she wishes existed—messy, funny, emotionally devastating, and occasionally involving kidnapping.

Her debut trilogy follows Demi, a 20-year-old ginger business student with catastrophically good intentions and a military-grade plan for losing her virginity. Things do not go according to plan.

Vanessa writes in English because British humour is her love language. She blames France for the rest.

When not writing, she is almost certainly rewatching something she's already seen and calling it research.

Vanessa Rhimes is a pen name, chosen in honour of a certain television showrunner who proved that messy, brilliant women make the best stories.