"Astrid Bailey is content living alone, balancing her career as a contract machinist with her true passion: making 'felicitation devices' for her discerning female clients.
At the upcoming World's Fair, with its substantial cash prize, there's an opportunity for her to open the shop she's always imagined and solve her financial woes. With questionable credentials, though, she's unable to enter without a reputable businessman to vouch for her.
Eli Rutledge, noted watchmaker, needs to enter the World's Fair to maintain his reputation as an innovator, but he's fresh out of ideas. With no other options, he agrees to Astrid's proposal, lending his good name to her scandalous invention. When construction heats up, so does their chemistry - and the complications. Astrid is unaccustomed to accepting help, especially from a privileged businessman like Eli, even if she can't keep her hands off him. Eli is losing his fight to an attraction that could spell professional disaster and heartbreak.
As the Fair date approaches, Astrid and Eli must decide how far they'll go for the business...and for each other.
Combustion contains steamy f/f m/f encounters and gratuitous liberties in an alternative-history steampunk London (all in the quest for happily ever after)."
"A Popsugar Best Romance Novel of 2020
RITA® Award-winning author Elia Winters delivers a sexy, playful frenemies-to-lovers road trip romance.
Megan Harris had hopes of seeing the world, but at twenty-five she's never even left Florida. Now a wedding invitation lures her to Quebec…in February. When her ex-friend Scarlett offers to be her plus-one (yeah, that's a whole story) and suggests they turn the journey into an epic road trip, Megan reluctantly agrees to the biggest adventure of her life.
A week together in a car is a surefire way to kill a crush, and Scarlett Andrews has had a big one on Megan for years. The important thing is fixing their friendship.
As the miles roll away, what starts as harmless road-trip games and rest-stop dares escalates into something like intimacy. And when a surprise snowstorm forces Megan and Scarlett to hunker down without the open road as distraction, they've got a bigger challenge than making it to the church on time: facing the true nature of their feelings for each other.
Carina Adores is home to romantic love stories where LGBTQ+ characters find their happily-ever-afters.
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