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| Romantic Hero by Kirsty GreenwoodBrokenhearted after her boyfriend leaves her, romance author Gertie Bickerstaff finds herself plagued by writer's block...until River Oakley, the cowboy villain from her series, shows up at her house. Desperate to get back to his own reality, River suggests a fake relationship to make Gertie's ex jealous and help break her creative block. For fans of: Writing Mr. Right by Alina Khawaja. |
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| Leave and Come Back by Lavanya LakshmiToronto-based Indian American Simran Gopal returns to New Jersey for her cousin's wedding, bracing herself for the comments her meddling aunt Veena will make about her white boyfriend, Leo. With the wedding party's help, Simran and Leo stage a fake meet-cute, hoping that Leo will impress Veena enough to be accepted into Simran's flawed but loving family. Taking inspiration from Jane Austen and the Bollywood classic Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Lavanya Lakshmi's feel-good debut will appeal to fans of Sonali Dev and Uzma Jalaluddin. |
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| The Missed Connection by Tia WilliamsReady to re-enter the world after a stalking incident turned her into a recluse, Sasha Cruz has a meet-cute with her seatmate on a transcontinental flight, but the pair lose sight of each other before they can exchange numbers. Hoping to track him down, Sasha hires the detective who helped her with her stalker, but soon finds herself unexpectedly torn between the two men. For fans of: Kennedy Ryan. |
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Love You More
by Emily Giffin
Billie has built the perfect life. Her practice as a doctor in NYC is thriving, and she’s finally found the right partner in Dean after years spent trying to move on from her high-school sweetheart, Mick. Their young love had been intense and true, but distance and ambition pulled them apart. Then one morning, just after accepting Dean's romantic marriage proposal, Billie's phone rings. It's Mick - calling for the first time in nearly a decade. His news is urgent, and it shatters Billie’s carefully ordered world.
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Habits of the Sea
by Shea Ernshaw
The night Clay Lockhart's wife dies, a violent storm tears their home--and the eight hectares of land beneath it--away from the Scottish coast, sending it adrift into the Atlantic. Thirty years later, twelve-year-old Ellie Mills discovers the fabled floating island off the coast of Nova Scotia and finds Clay still living in the weatherworn farmhouse perched on its highest hill. When the island vanishes overnight, Ellie is left questioning whether it ever existed at all. But decades later, the island resurfaces--and Ellie, now in her thirties, returns, determined to uncover the truth. What she finds is even stranger: Clay hasn't aged a single day. Faced with the impossible, Ellie learns that some mysteries aren't meant to be solved--and that a life shaped by wonder may hold more promise than one bound by certainty.
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Most Ardently Yours
by Freya Sampson
Zoe Knight, a struggling romance writer, has sworn off men for good. At least...the ones in real life. Once a believer in a happily ever after, she now curbs her loneliness with the help of the best book boyfriends in literature - and there is no better man than Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy. So when she stumbles into a classic London bookshop and argues with the annoyingly attractive store owner, Nick, who refuses to sell romance novels, she decides to liberate him of a dusty copy of Pride & Prejudice abandoned on a top shelf. But this is no ordinary book. After reading from the pages, Zoe finds herself in a remarkable situation: she has accidentally summoned the Mr. Darcy to the real world.
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Die for Me
by Shirlene Obuobi
Sean's not in the market for love. The only female, let alone Black, interventional cardiologist at her hospital, she's watched too many of her male colleagues divorce their first wives to marry younger models--and then there's the abusive relationship she's spent the better part of her early 30s healing from. Her passions are reserved for her best friend, her goddaughter, and her job. Then she meets Julian. Brooding, beautiful and eleven years her junior. In short: A bad idea. Julian pursues her in a way that sets off alarm bells in her mind, but she finds herself unable to resist their undeniable chemistry--even starts fantasizing about him in dreams that feel altogether too real.
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Vera Stein Is Fine
by Julie Murphy
Vera knows she's missed her chance at a life worthy of the silver screen, just like she missed her chance at ever finding true love. But Vera isn't one to take chances. She's spent most of her adult years caretaking for her dying mother and her movie star boss's ego. Now abruptly houseless and jobless, Vera has nowhere to land, so to grandmother's house we go. The Starlight Palms Senior Living Center is midcentury Hollywood down to its pastel-painted bones. This desert gem isn't lacking in saucy plot twists (swinging seniors, anyone?) or a leading man: Elias Buckley, the on-site doctor and Vera's former ill-fated college fling and--for reasons that will stay in Vegas--legally her ex-husband according to the state of Nevada. It's not long before Vera falls into a job as the activities coordinator and under the spell of a certain smart-mouthed doctor...
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