They call it an arranged marriage - as a joke. Mostly.
Jess grew up with a spreadsheet for a vacation itinerary. Adam grew up in the jungles of Peru, raising monkeys and blowing up anthills with a little too much enthusiasm. When Jess met Adam's family, the matchmaking began almost immediately. They were probably hoping it would lead to a date. Less than six months later, they were married.
And then they started building a life - one that took them from Peru to Ecuador and beyond, through jungle survival training, five kids, more boat disasters than any family should reasonably have, and eventually a decision to follow a dream of owning a farm.
Along the way, there were anacondas, machetes, midnight break-ins, a village birth with no doctor in sight, and a husband who, in twenty years, has never once made a boring decision. There was also heartbreak, uncertainty, and the ordinary hard parts no one warns you about - the ones that don't make it onto a highlight reel but shape a family just as much as the adventures do.
This is a book about choosing each other, over and over - in hospital rooms, on riverboats, in guesthouses and jungle camps - and about what happens when two people build a life that never once went according to plan.
Luckfully is the true, wildly unfiltered story about marriage, motherhood, adventure, and the strange, beautiful mess of building a life far from where you started. It's funny. It's terrifying in places. And underneath it all is a simple discovery: you don't have to know where life is taking you to enjoy the journey.
And after all the dirt roads, wrong turns, close calls, and unexpected gifts, one thing becomes clear: the story isn't over yet - and that's the best part.
