"Falling in love was not in their wedding vows…
Loren Cane is in a downward spiral. Since her fiancé left her, she’s been juggling multiple jobs, mounting bills, and a father who’s slipping away. The only thing she has left is the found family that anchors her.
Namely, Bridger Adams.
Bridger has been hiding his secret wealth, his powerful influence, and the brutal condition attached to both: Walk down the aisle with a woman chosen for him, or sacrifice control of the trust fund that could save everything he cares about.
Especially Loren Cane.
Loren knows she can’t afford to lose Bridger. But as his deadline looms, her situation turns critical, and she proposes something outrageous:
Marry me instead.
On the surface, her solution is practical and mutually beneficial. Their wedding vows conveniently protect what matters most.
But as the boundaries of their friendship blur into something dangerously real, a new demand threatens to tear them apart.
Now, Loren and Bridger face an impossible choice:
Stay married and fight for love…
Or walk away with the money and lose each other."
"When the stakes are win, lose, or fall … and love is not in their lesson plan.
Sayla Kroft has only two goals this year:
- Score the big district grant to rebuild her high school’s dilapidated theater.
- Avoid Dexter Michaels, the flirty-flirt athletic director who wants those same funds for the gym.
Losing to her workplace enemy—again—is not on Sayla's never-ending to-do list. Neither is being trapped with her maddening coworker at a professional retreat.
Or noticing his relentlessly crooked smile is actually kind of ... hot.
But just as she’s beginning to believe Dex might not be the devil himself, the two are forced to switch job titles to prove their collaborative spirit. That’s when Sayla realizes her competition is fiercer than she imagined, which leaves her with an impossible choice:
Fall for Dex and risk losing the grant … or stop at nothing to win, and risk losing everything."
"She's in search of her soulmate. He avoids love at all costs. These neighbors are a total mismatch… until serendipity steps in.
Nori Sinclair has two goals in life: find the husband of her dreams, and purchase the beloved tea shop in her hometown, Serendipity Springs. So when Nori finds herself short on funds to land a business loan, she joins a dating app that pays her to be their featured single in a month-long ad campaign. Per her contract, all men are off-limits, except those matched for her by Swipe Rite.
This seems simple enough... until she keeps seeing herself in every mirror holding hands with Cash Briggs. AKA her aloof, unavailable neighbor.
After a career-ending injury, ex-baseball player Cash is on a mission to help others who've been shattered like he was, inside and out. With his sights firmly set on a job in Los Angeles, he doesn't have time for family or friends, let alone a relationship where he'd only get burned. Again.
Continually having to rescue Nori—his flustered neighbor, who seems desperate to avoid him—was not part of his plan.
While Cash and Nori fight their growing attraction, magnetic elements in their magical building draw them together, until they're forced to choose between breaking all the rules or breaking both their hearts…
Off the Wall is a standalone book in the Only Magic in the Building series. These closed-door, whimsical romance books are all set in the same historic building, which has a habit of playing matchmaker with its residents. There are light magical elements, but no spells, shifters, or dark magic of any kind."
"My dream job just got snapped up by the one man who rejected me…
That’s right. I’m an unemployed twenty-something stuck sleeping on my grandmother’s old futon while Hudson Blaine, the guy who shot me down, gets to manage The Beachfront Inn.
Talk about life being unfair.
I’m about to flee town with what’s left of my pride when Mr. Rejection begs me to stay. Apparently, he needs my help resuscitating the inn’s reputation before the grand reopening.
But I’m not sure I can bear Hudson being my new boss, or survive sharing an office with him and his wife-me-up eyes.
So I tell myself it’s just for one month. One month to prove myself and what I’m capable of …
Or go down on the shores of The Beachfront Inn in a blaze of humiliation.
That Time I Kissed My Beachfront Boss is a closed-door romantic comedy in the Abieville Love Stories series with all the sizzling chemistry you love, but no explicit scenes or language.
Tropes in the book:
- Sworn off relationships
- Forced proximity
- Workplace romance
- Found family
- Small town"
"The second dumbest thing I ever did was let my brother's best friend kiss me …
BRADY
Yeah, I shouldn’t have kissed Natalie Slater.
Not on the porch. Or at the beach. Or in the storage closet. Especially not the storage closet. But to be fair, she kissed me first. Six months later, I’m still thinking about it.
Trouble is, I’ve made promises that tie me to our small town, while Natalie can’t wait to escape. I’ve got no business pursuing her or my secret ambitions. My future’s set, and good people here are depending on me. Too bad my gut’s not listening to reason, and I'm being pulled toward different dreams: the career I’ve always wanted, and the woman whose smile I can’t forget…
NATALIE
Brady Graham and I used to be friends. For a while there, I was even the teensiest bit attracted to him. But Brady’s sister is marrying my brother, and my brother is Brady’s best friend. How awkward would family dinners be if things went south? We need to let our mutual attraction fizzle out.
Except…nothing seems to be fizzling. With all the time we’re spending together as Maid of Honor and Best Man, our attraction’s just burning hotter. Then the guy decides to show me his secret soft side. Hot and vulnerable? So. Not. Fair.
Because the only heat I need in my life is the sunshine in Los Angeles. I’ve made commitments on the west coast, and I can’t risk being sidetracked by Broody Brady.
I just need to put three thousand miles between me and his so-not-fairness…"
"Fireworks plus mistletoe equal one explosive kiss …
Beau Slater sure brings the fireworks. Too bad they’re not the good kind. My brother’s best friend was so smoking hot, he blew up our small-town graduation night with one humiliating almost-kiss. It took me five years, one potential dream job, and three thousand miles to diffuse that horrifying memory.
So when my worst enemy and I are forced together by our meddling mothers for a first-ever Christmas in July, I can’t risk Beau reigniting my heart. Which means I’m probably supremely stupid to enlist him in my plot to teach our manipulative families a lesson.
Still. Beau’s future is a world away from mine, and neither one of us will give up on our dreams. So how hard could it be to fake-date the off-limits man I’m secretly pining for?
The answer is EASY, Kasey.
Just as long as I don’t let this old flame and his sugarplum lips burn me again …"
"My holly jolly Christmas just went up in smoke. Literally …
Playing nursemaid to Bradford “Three” Fuller is the last thing I need for Christmas.
But for the next few days, I’m stuck in charge of my ex’s sparkling eyes, his ridiculous abs, and his (mostly) accidental kisses.
I don’t have a choice.
You see, Three’s only hurt because of me. And not like he hurt me a decade ago. Like … I literally concussed the man with a fire extinguisher.
Still, a make-or-break mission for my parents is what brought me back to the small town where he crushed my tender heart in the first place.
And if I screw up, I risk my mother’s approval plus the job at my father’s law firm I’ve worked for my entire life.
So I sure hope Santa stuffs my stocking full of self-control. And a defibrillator.
Because my heart just may be broken by this second chance with Three …"
"When the movie star's spotlight could hurt the ones he loves most…
My agent has this idea—an insanely bad idea—to reboot my Hollywood heartthrob status by having my long-lost love dump me… while I'm proposing to her on national TV.
The theory? Women everywhere will swoon over poor Lincoln James, scrambling to repair his vulnerable, shattered heart.
Trouble is, I don't have any kind of love—long, lost, or otherwise.
To play my fake girlfriend, my agent enlists Hadley Morgan, my secret college crush. The one who dragged me to an audition that launched my career but left her in the dust.
Upping the ante, she offers Hadley a slot on the show she missed out on years ago. When the alternative publicity ploy is for reporters to dig up dirt on my family, I've got no choice but to go along with the ruse.
That's why I'm in Harvest Hollow now—as one half of the dream couple HadLink—at least until Hadley blows up our relationship during a very public proposal.
Our breakup's built into this deal. Too bad I've got real love for this woman.
But if I come clean, I risk Hadley's big break, my family's painful past, and my own rebooted heart …
Faking the Fall is a closed-door fake-dating/celebrity rom-com full of sizzling kisses and crackling chemistry. You'll find plenty of humor and heart in the small town of Harvest Hollow, but no spice."
"Spencer Crane thinks I'm a human tornado. I think he's a calendar app come to life.
While he schedules? I spin-out.
When I spontaneously combust? He overcompensates.
And this is why convincing my new boss to hire him is a completely brilliant idea. You see, workplace romance is forbidden, but attraction between total opposites like Spencer and me is a non-issue.
I repeat: Non. Issue.
I only wish I hadn't discovered Mr. Clark Kent Glasses is (secretly) scorchingly hot. Even worse, he's funny and chivalrous, and shoving me straight out of my Tess the Mess comfort zone.
But we both need this job. Like, a lot. And if our boss catches wind of any fraternization, we'll be fired. Not to mention my heart's already at risk of being axed.
So when Spencer starts treating me like I'm a magnet and he's a fistful of iron, I've got a tornado-sized problem on my hands.
Starting now, I'm doubling down. I absolutely cannot fall for Spencer Crane.
Even if my total opposite might be everything I need…
This heartwarming, hilarious romantic comedy has all the sizzle and swoon, but no explicit content. The entire Apple Valley series can be read in any order."
"The first rule of being a winner? Never lose your heart…
People think it's easy being Felix Dodd III, and sure, the legacy and inheritance aren't exactly terrible. But the name comes with so many strings; my hands feel permanently tied. Like I'm stuck following in my father's footsteps. Like I can't trust people's intentions. Like my grandmother wants me settled down before my thirtieth birthday.
I've got less than zero interest in marriage, ever since my one attempt at love crashed and burned. But Grams won't let me access my trust until I'm engaged. Which means I need a fiancée.
Someone who's looking for quick cash and a quicker getaway.
Someone like Lucy Devlin.
She's got less than zero interest in me. But if I can get her to play along — just long enough to fool my grandmother — Lucy will be a whole lot richer, Grams will be none the wiser, and I'll stay heartbreak free.
Just as long as I remember the new rule: Don't love Lucy for real.
This heartwarming, hilarious romantic comedy has all the sizzle and swoon, but no explicit content. The entire Apple Valley series can be read in any order."
"This isn't a wedding. This is war…
I get it. We were in elementary school. Just a couple of kids on the playground. But after Nash Hendrix called me Enemy instead of Emily, his stupid nickname haunted me for years.
Now our best friends are getting married, and they expect me to stand across the aisle from Nash the Ruiner without killing him?
Whatever. I can survive that. It's only for one weekend.
Until it's not.
When I get roped into wedding planning at all the same places Nash is fundraising, I'm ready to blow up our truce. But the more time we spend together, the more I feel like…not murdering him.
Is it possible Nash and I don't hate each other? No way. He's still my enemy.
My big, dumb enemy. My big, dumb, gorgeous, sweet-smelling, smooth-talking — Emi, you're doomed.
This heartwarming, hilarious romantic comedy has all the sizzle and swoon, but no explicit content. The entire Apple Valley series can be read in any order."
"Not everyone is destined to live happily ever after, right? I'd be fine with averagely ever after. Lower expectations mean less heartbreak. But then I meet Mac and Daisy.
Single dad Mac needs a temporary nanny for his daughter, Daisy. I need a second job until my promotion kicks in. It's the perfect arrangement…until it isn't.
Because who can resist a dad buying ballerina tights after a day spent in a hard hat? Not me, that's for sure.
Now, Mac's green eyes and Daisy's crooked pigtails have me dreaming about a future I can't give them. I need to mend my own heart before I can focus on anyone else's.
At least our arrangement is only for one month, so I won't have time to get attached to this man and his little girl—I'm absolutely positive.
Well...I'm medium positive.
Okay, I'm negative.
This is a terrible idea.
Because Mac is a fixer, and me? I'm a fixer-upper. So as I start to find healing in his little family, I'm forced to ask myself: What does this mean for my heart?
This heartwarming, hilarious romantic comedy has all the sizzle and swoon, but no explicit content. The entire Apple Valley series can be read in any order."
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