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A fake relationship after a horrible one-night stand is anything but an act in this witty and heartfelt new romantic comedy by Ashley Herring Blake.Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partners that are perfect for them, and her parents are still blissfully married. And she’s happy for all of them, truly. Iris doesn’t want any of that—dating, love, romance. She’ll stick to her commitment-free hookups, thanks very much, except no one in her life will just let her be. Everyone wants to see her settled down, but she holds firmly to her no dating rule. There’s only one problem—Iris is a romance author facing an imminent deadline for her second book, and she’s completely out of ideas.Perfectly happy to ignore her problems as per usual, Iris goes to a bar in Portland and meets a sexy stranger, Stefania, and a night of dancing and making out turns into the worst one-night stand Iris has had in her life. To get her mind off everything, Iris tries out for the lead role in a local play, a queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing, but comes face-to-face with Stefania, whose real name turns out to be Stevie. Desperate to save face in front of her friends, Stevie asks Iris to play along as her girlfriend. Iris is shocked, but when she realizes the arrangement might provide her with some much-needed romantic content for her book, she agrees. As the two women play the part of a happy couple, lines start to blur, and they’re left wondering who will make the real first move....

Together in a beautiful boxed set, three delightful summer rom-coms from #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey!Fall in love over and over again with these three bestselling stories. In this boxed set, readers will enjoy It Happened One Summer & Hook, Line, and Sinker from the fan-favorite Bellinger Sister series, as well as Secretly Yours—the first in a brand-new duology set in wine country!IT HAPPENED ONE SUMMER: Hollywood “It Girl” Piper Bellinger is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a Pacific Northwest town where she butts heads with a grumpy local sea captain who thinks she doesn’t belong.HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER: Hannah Bellinger is best friends with a charming playboy but when they end up as roommates, their strictly platonic relationship takes a surprisingly steamy turn.SECRETLY YOURS: The man Hallie Welch has secretly loved since high school is finally back in their small town, but will the starchy professor remember their almost-kiss years before... or will their polar opposite personalities clash spectacularly?

The Prince and the Dressmaker goes to Austenland in this historically inspired, joyfully queer, stunningly romantic graphic novel mash-up of Jane Austen novels—where two friends discover their feelings for each other and find a space in their world for their love and identity.George has major problems: They’ve just inherited the failing family estate, and the feelings for their best friend, Eleanor, have become more complicated than ever. Not to mention, if anyone found out they were secretly dressing in men’s clothes, George is sure it would be ruination for the family name.Eleanor has always wanted to do everything "right," including falling in love—but she’s never met a boy she was interested in. She’d much rather spend time with her best friend, George, and beloved cousin Charlotte. However, when a new suitor comes to town, she finds her closest friendships threatened, forcing her to rethink what "right" means and confront feelings she never knew she had.Perfect for fans of Alice Oseman and Ngozi Ukazu, I Shall Never Fall in Love shines a light on what it means to be true to yourself and rewrites the rules for what makes a happily ever after.

An Instant USA Today Bestseller! An Indie Next Pick A Library Reads Pick Estranged exes must stick close together to save their best friend’s wedding after a string of disasters in this swoony and steamy second-chance romance from the USA Today bestselling author of You, with a View. Georgia Woodward lives by her lists, none more so than the one about her ex, Eli Mora. It’s full of the ironclad dos and don’ts they’ve been following since she returned to the Bay Area after their cataclysmic breakup five years ago.  With the wedding of their mutual best friend, Adam, looming, and them about to step into their roles as best woman and man, Georgia’s never needed it more. She refuses to threaten their tight-knit friend group with her messy—and still very present—feelings. The rules on that list will keep her cool, calm, and compartmentalized.  What’s not on her list? Eli arriving from New York with a new rule-breaking attitude or the all-inclusive venue burning to the ground, leaving the bride and groom in dire straits. Nor does she anticipate Adam asking her and Eli to help him make a miracle happen. Together. As Georgia and Eli rush up to Napa Valley to pull off the perfect wedding, their old chemistry comes back in technicolor. Somewhere between cake tastings gone wrong, disastrous DJ auditions, and Eli’s heated attention, Georgia starts recognizing the man she fell in love with before. And if she lets herself break her rules, she might find what they’re building isn’t the something old that ruined them—it’s a chance at something new.

Sometimes When Perfect Falls Apart, A Little Trouble Fixes Everything . . . Twenty-one-year-old Kayla Turner Has Lost Everything. After Spending Most Of Her Life Taking Care Of Her Ailing Mother, She Just Wants To Spot A Glimmer Of Light At The End Of The Tunnel. So When Her Late Father-a Man She Barely Knew-leaves Her An Inheritance, She Finally Breathes A Sigh Of Relief . . . Until She Learns The Inheritance Comes With Strings. Strings In The Form Of Handsome Playboy Daren Ackwood, Her Father's Protégé. To See Any Of Her Inheritance, She's Forced To Team Up With Him. From His Expensive Car To Those Sexy Dimples, Kayla's Seen His Type Before. But Daren Isn't Who He Seems To Be . . . Struggling To Make Amends For His Family's Mistakes, Daren Has A Life More Oliver Twist Than Richie Rich These Days. He's Beyond Grateful That James Turner Included Him In His Will, But Working With Turner's Princess Of A Daughter To Fulfill His Cryptic Last Wish Is Making Daren Wonder If Being Broke Is Really So Bad. Still, She's Just As Beautiful As She Is Stubborn, And The More Time He Spends With Kayla, The Less It Feels Right Being Without Her. Soon Daren And Kayla Begin To Wonder If Maybe The Best Gift Kayla's Dad Could Have Left Them . . . Was Each Other. Praise For Chelsea Fine: By Turns Humorous And Heartbreaking, Best Kind Of Broken Has Become One Of My Favorites! ---cora Carmack, New York Times Bestselling Author You'll Fall For Pixie And Levi, Just Like I Did! --- Jennifer L. Armentrout (j. Lynn), #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Tangled With Friendship, History And Heartbreak - Not To Mention A Huge Dose Of Humor - Chelsea Fine's New Adult Novel Is Not To Be Missed! Beyond An Incredibly Hot Read, Pixie And Levi's Longing For Each Other Will Have You Rooting For Them Till The Very End. --- Jay Crownover, New York Times Bestselling Author Chelsea Fine's Style Is Witty, Visceral And Fresh. All I Wanted To Do Was Crawl Inside This Book And Live With The Characters. ---chelsea M. Cameron, New York Times Bestselling Author

An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance for fans of Evvie Drake Starts Over, about grief and found family, between the new star shortstop stuck in a batting slump and the reporter assigned to (reluctantly) cover his first season—set in the same universe as We Could Be So Good.The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst year of Eddie O’Leary’s life. He can’t manage to hit the ball, his new teammates hate him, he’s living out of a suitcase, and he’s homesick. When the team’s owner orders him to give a bunch of interviews to some snobby reporter, he’s ready to call it quits. He can barely manage to behave himself for the length of a game, let alone an entire season. But he’s already on thin ice, so he has no choice but to agree.Mark Bailey is not a sports reporter. He writes for the arts page, and these days he’s barely even managing to do that much. He’s had a rough year and just wants to be left alone in his too-empty apartment, mourning a partner he’d never been able to be public about. The last thing he needs is to spend a season writing about New York’s obnoxious new shortstop in a stunt to get the struggling newspaper more readers.Isolated together within the crush of an anonymous city, these two lonely souls orbit each other as they slowly give in to the inevitable gravity of their attraction. But Mark has vowed that he’ll never be someone’s secret ever again, and Eddie can’t be out as a professional athlete. It’s just them against the world, and they’ll both have to decide if that’s enough.

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In the close-knit community of Chesapeake Shores, Maryland, Susie O'Brien and Mack Franklin's "not dating" claim befuddles everyone, especially since the two spend every spare minute together. Susie's thrilled when their friendship finally heats up. Then, just when happily-ever-after seems within reach, Mack loses the job he loves and Susie faces a devastating diagnosis. But O'Briens always unite in a crisis. Even her cousin Jess, Susie's rival for most of their lives, becomes her staunchest supporter—especially when Mack's former lover comes to town. The stakes are higher than ever before, but Susie's definitely up to the challenge…as long as Mack's right there by her side.

On the anniversary of his beloved wife's death, Dr. Michael Everett receives a letter Hannah had written him.In it she reminds him of her love and makes one final request. An impossible request. I want you to marry again. She tells him he shouldn't spend the years he has left grieving—and she's chosen three women she asks him to consider.First on Hannah's list is her cousin, Winter Adams, a chef who owns a café on Seattle's Blossom Street. The second is Leanne Lancaster, Hannah's oncology nurse. Michael knows them both. But the third name is one he's not familiar with—Macy Roth.During the months that follow, he spends time with these three women, learning more about each of them…and about himself. Learning what Hannah already knew. He's a man who needs the completeness only love can offer. And Hannah's list leads him to the woman who can help him find it.

A bed-and-breakfast for the brokenhearted might hold the key to another chance at love in this achingly hopeful debut romance.Louisa Walsh emerged from a tumultuous childhood with a degree in counseling, a wealthy boyfriend, and her sunny outlook on life mostly intact. But that optimism is tested when she’s dumped and left unable to afford rent on their gorgeous house in the mountains of Colorado. Even with her life in disarray, Lou knows losing the one stable place she’s ever called home is not an option.Her plan: ask her reclusive landlord, Henry Rhodes, to let her stay for free in exchange for renting out the house’s many rooms as a bed-and-breakfast. She’s shocked when he agrees to her terms, and even more surprised to discover Henry is a handsome thirtysomething veterinarian with silver at his temples and sadness in his eyes. One who does not take it well when Lou starts marketing her B and B as a retreat for the recently heartbroken.But as the Comeback Inn opens its doors to its weary, hopeful guests, Lou and Henry find themselves dancing around both their undeniable connection and the closely held secrets that threaten to topple this fragile new start. A chance at love, here, could be too close to home…or it could be exactly where their hearts finally heal.