When freelance writer Nikole Paterson goes to a Dodgers game with her actor boyfriend, his man bun, and his bros, the last thing she expects is a scoreboard proposal. Saying no isn't the hard partâthey've only been dating for five months, and he can't even spell her name correctly. The hard part is having to face a stadium full of disappointed fans...
At the game with his sister, Carlos Ibarra comes to Nik's rescue and rushes her away from a camera crew. He's even there for her when the video goes viral and Nik's social media blows upâin a bad way. Nik knows that in the wilds of LA, a handsome doctor like Carlos can't be looking for anything serious, so she embarks on an epic rebound with him, filled with food, fun, and fantastic sex. But when their glorified hookups start breaking the rules, one of them has to be smart enough to put on the brakes.
No one wants to be single at the holidays. Even Little Miss Grinch, Nikki, a successful and independent woman, must face her bachelorette status at the most horrible time of the year. December is her personal version of holly-jolly hell: a merry torture made of couples kissing at every corner, forced vacation days, and an inescapable family reunion. And when her baby sister announces sheâs engagedâto Paul, the man Nikki is secretly in love withâand that heâs spending the holidays with them, Christmas starts looking bluer than ever.
Nikki canât possibly survive an entire week trapped home as the familyâs spinster. But she has no time to meet men or to try the newest dating app, sheâs too busy working as a video producer for an advertising agency. So whatâs a girl to do? Nikki has the perfect solution: to hire a fake boyfriend. Luckily, her job gives her access to an endless catalog of gorgeous actors to choose from. But Nikki will soon discover that keeping business and pleasure from mixing isnât so easy, and that she might not be immune to a little mistletoe magic. Especially not when she picked out the perfect man as her Christmas date...
A fun, festive romantic comedy with lots of bad behavior and Christmas spirit. Like a creamy hot chocolate with marshmallows, you wonât want to put this deliciously hilarious novel down. Perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella, Sally Thorne, and Jo Watson.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me.
Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She steps into the world of the superrich, working for Leonard Gopnik and his much younger second wife, Agnes. Lou is determined to get the most out of the experience and throws herself into her new job and New York life.
As she begins to mix in New York high society, Lou meets Joshua Ryan, a man who brings with him a whisper of her past. Before long, Lou finds herself torn between Fifth Avenue, where she works, and the treasure-filled vintage clothing store where she actually feels at home.
And when matters come to a head, she has to ask herself: Who is Louisa Clark? And how do you find the courage to follow your heartâwherever that may lead?
Funny, romantic, and poignant, Still Me follows Lou as she navigates how to stay true to herself, while pushing to live boldly in her brave new world.
Ayesha at Last is a modern-day retelling of Pride and Prejudice, set in a Muslim community, for a new generation of love. Ayesha Shamsi has her life filled with various challenges. Her aspiration to become a poet has been shelved for a teaching occupation to settle debts owed to her affluent uncle. She resides with her lively Muslim household and is frequently reminded of her flighty younger cousin, Hafsa, who is on the verge of declining her one hundredth marriage proposal.
Despite Ayesha's solitude, she is adamant against an arranged marriage. However, her world turns upside down when she encounters Khalid. He's as intelligent and handsome as he is traditional and critical. Ayesha finds herself inexplicably drawn to someone who disapproves of her life choices and appears to be from a different era entirely.
Amidst this, a surprise engagement between Khalid and Hafsa is declared, leaving Ayesha caught between her feelings for the forthright Khalid and troubling rumors about his family. Delving into these whispers, she must confront not only the revelations about Khalid but also the truths she uncovers about herself.
The Kiss Quotient is a heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that demonstrates one thing with certainty: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick. Stella Lane believes math is the only thing that unites the universe. She devises algorithms to predict customer purchasesâa job that has given her ample financial resources but significantly less dating experience than the average thirty-year-old.
Stella's Asperger's makes social interactions challenging, with French kissing evoking images of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her logical conclusion: she needs plenty of practiceâwith a professional. Enter Michael Phan, a Vietnamese and Swedish escort who can't afford to refuse Stella's proposition. Agreeing to assist her with her intimate lesson plan, Michael helps Stella explore everything from foreplay to more adventurous positions.
As Stella begins to enjoy his kisses and yearn for more of the sensations he elicits, their straightforward arrangement starts to make an unexpected kind of sense. And the emerging pattern will persuade Stella that love is indeed the best kind of logic.
Marnie MacGraw wants an ordinary lifeâa husband, kids, and a minivan in the suburbs. Now that sheâs marrying the man of her dreams, sheâs sure this is the life sheâll get. Then Marnie meets Blix Holliday, her fiancĂ©âs irascible matchmaking great-aunt whoâs dying, and everything changesâjust as Blix told her it would.
When her marriage ends after two miserable weeks, Marnie is understandably shocked. Sheâs even more astonished to find that sheâs inherited Blixâs Brooklyn brownstone along with all of Blixâs unfinished âprojectsâ: the heartbroken, oddball friends and neighbors running from happiness. Marnie doesnât believe sheâs anything special, but Blix somehow knew she was the perfect person to follow in her matchmaker footsteps.
And Blix was also right about some things Marnie must learn the hard way: love is hard to recognize, and the ones who push love away often are the ones who need it most.
Buying a lotto ticket with her two best friends didn't change Zoe's life. Only following her heart would do that...
Sure, winning the lottery allows Zoe Ferris to quit her job as a cutthroat corporate attorney, but no amount of cash will clear her conscience about the way her firm treated the O'Leary family in a wrongful death case. So she sets out to make things right, only to find gruff, grieving Aiden O'Leary doesn't needâor wantâher apology. He does, however, need something else from her. Something Zoe is more than willing to give, if only to ease the pain in her heart, a sorrow she sees mirrored in his eyes...
Aiden doesn't know what possesses him to ask his family's enemy to be his fake fiancĂ©e. But he needs a bride if he hopes to be the winning bid on the campground he wants to purchase as part of his beloved brother's legacy. Skilled in the art of deception, the cool beauty certainly fits the bill. Only Aiden didn't expect all the humor and heart Zoe brings to their partnershipâor the desire that runs deep between them. Now he's struggling with his own dark truthâthat he's falling for the very woman he vowed never to forgive.
Classic movie buff Bailey âMinkâ Rydell has spent months crushing on a witty film geek she only knows online by âAlex.â Two coasts separate the teens until Bailey moves in with her dad, who lives in the same California surfing town as her online crush.
Faced with doubts (what if heâs a creep in real lifeâor worse?), Bailey doesnât tell Alex sheâs moved to his hometown. Or that sheâs landed a job at the local tourist-trap museum. Or that sheâs being heckled daily by the irritatingly hot museum security guard, Porter Rothâa.k.a. her new arch-nemesis.
But life is whole lot messier than the movies, especially when Bailey discovers that tricky fine line between hate, love, and whatever-it-is sheâs starting to feel for Porter.
And as the summer months go by, Bailey must choose whether to cling to a dreamy online fantasy in Alex or take a risk on an imperfect reality with Porter.
The choice is both simpler and more complicated than she realizes, because Porter Roth is hiding a secret of his own: Porter is AlexâŠApproximately.
In this delightfully charming teen spin on Youâve Got Mail, the one guy Bailey Rydell canât stand is actually the boy of her dreamsâshe just doesnât know it yet.
A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in this fun and flirty multicultural romance debut by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory.
Agreeing to go to a wedding with a guy she gets stuck with in an elevator is something Alexa Monroe wouldn't normally do. But there's something about Drew Nichols that's too hard to resist. On the eve of his ex's wedding festivities, Drew is minus a plus one. Until a power outage strands him with the perfect candidate for a fake girlfriend.
After Alexa and Drew have more fun than they ever thought possible, Drew has to fly back to Los Angeles and his job as a pediatric surgeon, and Alexa heads home to Berkeley, where she's the mayor's chief of staff. Too bad they can't stop thinking about the other. They're just two high-powered professionals on a collision course toward the long distance dating disaster of the century--or closing the gap between what they think they need and what they truly want.