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Friends with benefits : a novel
by Marisa Kanter
Childhood best friends Evie and Theo enter a fake marriage, in order to allow Evie access to Theo's health insurance benefits and allow Theo to keep his apartment. However, their "fictional" marriages gives rise to the real romantic feelings that have long simmered between the surface of their lifelong friendship
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Rules for ruin
by Mimi Matthews
No one betrays the Academy. But now Euphemia must decide: break the rules for her enemy, or let the rules break her heart. On the outskirts of London sits a seemingly innocuous institution with a secretive aim - train young women to distract, disrupt, and discredit the patriarchy. Outraged by a powerful politician's systematic attack on women's rights, the Academy summons its brightest - and most bitter - pupil to infiltrate the odious man's inner circle. A deal is struck: bring down the viscount and Miss Euphemia Flite will finally earn her freedom. But betting shop owner Gabriel Royce has other plans. The viscount is the perfect pawn to insulate Gabriel's underworld empire from government interference. He's not about to let some crinoline-clad miss destroy his carefully constructed enterprise - no matter how captivating he finds her threats. From the rookeries of St. Giles to the corridors of Westminster, Euphemia and Gabriel engage in a battle of wits and wills, complicated by a blossoming desire. Soon Euphemia realizes it's not the broken promises to her Academy sisters she should fear, it's the danger to her heart.
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It's a love story
by Annabel Monaghan
Jane Jackson spent her adolescence as "Poor Janey Jakes," the barbecue-sauce-in-her-braces punch line on America's fifth-favorite sitcom. Now she's trying to be taken seriously as a Hollywood studio executive by embracing a new mantra: Fake it till you make it. Except she might have faked it too far. Desperate to get her first project greenlit and riled up by pompous cinematographer and one-time crush Dan Finnegan, she claimed that she could get mega popstar Jack Quinlan to write a song for the movie. Jack may have been her first kiss--and greatest source of shame--but she hasn't spoken to him in twenty years. Now Jane must turn to the last man she'd ever want to owe: Dan Finnegan. Because Jack is playing a festival in Dan's hometown, and Dan has an in. A week in close quarters with Dan as she faces down her past is Jane's idea of hell, but he just might surprise her. While covering up her lie, can they find something true?
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| What Happens in Amsterdam by Rachel Lynn SolomonWhen single and unemployed Angeleno Dani Dorfman moves to Amsterdam to work for a fledgling startup which soon folds, she scrambles to find a new job before her visa runs out. Enter her high school ex, Wouter van Leewuen, who offers to marry her for their mutual benefit -- Wouter can inherit his family estate while Dani can stay in the Netherlands. Try this next: Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks. |
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Passion project : a novel
by London Sperry
If your twenties are supposed to be the best years of your life, Bennet Taylor is failing miserably . . . with a big emphasis on the miserable. Where's that zest she keeps hearing about? She's a temp worker in New York City with no direction, no future, and no social life. And at the painful center of this listlessness is grief over the death of her first love. When Bennet runs into Henry Adams just hours after standing him up for a first date, she makes an alcohol-fueled confession: She's not ready to date. In fact, it's been years since she felt passion for something. Not even pottery, or organized sports-not anything. Rather than leaving her to ruminate, Henry jumps at the opportunity for adventure: Bennet needs to find a passion for life, and Henry will help her find it. Every Saturday, they'll try something new in New York City. As friends, of course. As their "passion project" continues, the pair tackle everything from carpentry to tattooing to rappelling off skyscrapers, and Bennet feels her guarded exterior ebbing away. But as secrets surface, Bennet has to decide what she wants, and if she's truly ready to move on. With emotional resonance and sparkling banter, Passion Project is a fun, flirty, thoughtful story of finding a spark-and igniting happiness.
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Focus on: LGBTQIA+ Romances
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| Chef's Kiss by T.J. AlexanderAs culinary publisher The Discerning Chef pivots to video, recipe developer Simone Larkspur navigates a fraught working relationship with test kitchen manager Ray Lyton, which gets more complicated when Ray comes out as nonbinary. For fans of: Anita Kelly's Love & Other Disasters. |
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| The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ CharlesIn 1810 Kent, England, London clerk Gareth Inglis unexpectedly inherits a baronetcy and an estate on Romney Marsh, where he encounters his former lover, Josiah "Joss" Doomsday, now the head of a smuggling gang. This 1st in the Doomsday Books series will appeal to fans of Cat Sebastian. |
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Liquid : a love story
by Mariam Rahmani
"The story of a young Muslim scholar stuck in the mire of adjunct professorship in Los Angeles who decides to give up her career in academia and marry rich, committing herself to one hundred dates in the course of a single summer"
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