"#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips is back with the latest novel in her beloved Chicago Stars series, featuring a romance between a star quarterback and one of the country’s most beautiful—and misunderstood—actresses.
After a mortifying—and very public—humiliation, Dancy Flynn is desperate to find sanctuary far from the crowd. But where can a washed-up sex symbol hide? How about making an unannounced appearance at the secluded lake house of the sweet, sensitive high school boyfriend she hasn’t seen in almost twenty years?
But Chicago Stars quarterback Clint Garrett is no longer the kid Dancy remembers. Now he’s a gridiron superhero, still holding a massive grudge against her for breaking his teenage heart. With no room in his life for either complexity or distractions, he banishes Dancy to a refurbished old railroad caboose tucked away in the woods…and out of his sight.
Except Dancy’s not good at staying invisible. Her efforts to rebuild her career clash with Clint’s desperation to regain his focus, all made more challenging by a rescue dog, a local woman in trouble, a meddling mother, an ex with an agenda…and the sizzle of rekindled emotions.
As Dancy attempts to get her life on track and Clint tries to get his groove back, can these two one-time lovers navigate their rocky pasts and complicated present to find themselves…and each other?
Tropes include:
second-chance romance
enemies to lovers
forced proximity
childhood sweethearts"
"A Good Girl's Guide to Murder meets Sweetpea in this binge-worthy murder mystery about a college student whose senior year takes a deadly turn when her exes start turning up dead…
Sloane Sawyer isn't just writing off her exes—she's burying them.
Each time Sloane Sawyer gets her heart broken by a boy, she writes him a eulogy in her journal as a form of therapy. They're dead to her. So, imagine Sloane's surprise when the exes in her journal start dying…literally.
Now, Sloane's senior year at Pembroke College is on the line, and so is her freedom. As the prime suspect, she has no choice but to dive headfirst into the investigation, even if that means teaming up with Asher, the last person she'd ever trust or want to be around. They're both too stubborn, too sarcastic, and way too attracted to each other for this to go smoothly.
But as the body count rises and the evidence mounts, Sloane has one mission: clear her name before the killer strikes again—or before she becomes the next victim. Between college parties, messy exes, and a very inconvenient attraction to Asher, she's in for one chaotic ride.
Tropes:
? College town drama
? Enemies to lovers
? Serial killer
? Fake relationship
? Amateur sleuth
? Narrator that needs to get her shit together
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"When a competitive rower's losing streak threatens her Olympic dreams, she must train for the summer with a hometown coach to win it all back in this irresistible opposites-attract romance.
Katherine Parker doesn't just dream of rowing in the Olympics. She has a carefully crafted plan. With a strict training schedule, a meticulous diet, and no one else in her boat to slow her down, she's as good as gold.
Then her boyfriend breaks up with her at the starting line of a big race and Kath comes in dead last. She's swiftly kicked off the team and out of the Olympic Training Center-the only place she's ever felt at home.
With one shot to win back her spot, Kath returns to her hometown to train with a new coach. The upside? Coach Adrian is hot. The downside? Instead of letting Kath follow her own training regimen, Adrian pushes her outside her comfort zone, urging her to try new things and let go of control.
With her Olympic dreams on the line, Kath will have to choose: stick to her perfect plan, or find out if the key to winning-and happiness-is to embrace the part of rowing that makes it fun, one sweaty, sexy training session at a time."
"No one knows why the queen of indie rock vanished from the Detroit scene twenty years ago. Now, her ex-girlfriend is determined to track her down-and what she uncovers will change everything.
Detroit, 1997. At the Artemis Club, Paloma is chasing rock-and-roll stardom, with her girlfriend and manager Jace committed to making her a worldwide indie sensation. But when Paloma suddenly disappears from the public eye in 2001, Jace is left to pick up the pieces.
Two decades later, Jace thought she'd left music for good. Yet when the Artemis Club is threatened, she commits to saving the venue even though she'll have to track down Paloma, whose early-career hit just went viral. Paloma has her reasons for not wanting to be found, and Jace isn't eager to reopen old wounds. Still, each keeps measuring her life against the love she lost. With the Artemis's fate at stake, Jace and Paloma are pulled back into the scene they once ruled...and back toward each other.
Told in two voices, this sapphic salute to Detroit's garage band era shows that sometimes, the truth is the most powerful love song of all."
"If she builds it, they will come.
A sex toy engineer with one big secret finally meets her match, and together they'll put their own products to the test in this steamy romantic comedy.
Scout Porter is screwed. Not literally, of course. Literally, she's a twenty-six-year-old virgin, thanks to a relationship so disastrous she swore off love and sex for good. Metaphorically, she's screwed because the entire office of BuzzCorp, the sex toy start-up where she's head engineer, just found out. Scout needs her team to stay focused on their upcoming launch, not her lack of a sex life, so she finds the simplest solution: lose her V-card, and fast, then back to business as usual.
Enter Hudson Bailey, the nerdy and charming software developer hired to build the app for Scout's latest creation. The only problem is, he's as inexperienced with sex toys as she is with sex. Fortunately, he's all too eager to learn, and they agree that one very educational, totally professional hook-up will solve both of their problems. All for research, obviously.
But their little experiment yields unexpected results-chemistry so off the charts Scout starts to think she might actually want more than just a one-time fling. When their budding relationship is threatened by the return of Scout's notorious ex, both Scout and Hudson will have to decide if they've reached their climax as a couple, or if they're willing to risk everything for a chance at true love."
"Malorie loves her life as a flight attendant. Traveling the world, never staying in one place too long, and living life on her terms. Brookwood may be her hometown, but the skies are her true home.
She’s sworn off love after a failed marriage, focusing on herself and the freedom she’s come to adore. So when a new pilot joins her crew, she doesn’t give him a second thought.
Until she discovers he not only lives in Brookwood but has moved in right across the hall.
Now, Malorie’s perfectly planned, love-free life might just hit a little turbulence."
"A former movie star is thrust back into the celebrity life where she finds herself competing for a date with her longtime crush in this funny and heartwarming rom-com about second chances and rediscovering your true self.
Once a teenage TV star, she's reinvented her life. Now her very public celebrity crush has put her back in the spotlight.
Josie Days has worked hard to forget who she used to be. Once upon a time, she was one of Mexico's favorite bilingual teen star-until one disastrous decision ruined her budding career. These days, Josie's happy to keep things very off-camera as a makeup artist. That is until her best friend ropes her into a charity game show where the prize is a date with her forever celebrity crush: impossibly charming Irish "It" boy Sean O'Sullivan.
Josie has no interest in winning. In fact, she's trying to lose-and fast. But Sean is interested in more than a game. The problem? Josie isn't who he thinks she is. And when the cameras start rolling and her past is exposed, she'll have to decide if she's ready for the spotlight again-or if her second act never should have started.
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"She's reeling from what should have been heartbreak and he's barely hanging on. Two people from the same city with different circumstances collide. Less of a collision—more of her crashing and burning while he's there to force his way in like a fixer.
Cova wasn't looking for anything, not a man nor a friend. You know what they say though . . . what you're not looking for, you'll surely find. As she sat in a lounge—a few glasses in,reeling from an eventful night—he pops in. At first glance she knows who he is, and that she should stay away from him, but can she?
The world can't get any worse for Khal. He's a man with nothing to lose who doesn't fear death. He embraces it, knowing everyone has a time, wondering when his will come. Losing someone so precious so soon has left him with an inability to care for anyone outside of his blood . . . Until he lays eyes on her. Something about the pie-faced beauty draws him in like a fish on the line. The only problem is? He's her brother's opp.
Will this so-called beef with Cova's brother stop what could be between them? Or could messy hood connections be the very thing that binds them together?
Contains mature themes."
"I ain't afraid of no ghost . . . But tentacle monsters are another story.
For the last year, I've been living with an invisible monster who steals my snacks, turns off my electricity, and runs off all my dates. As annoying as that is, he's my only companion, and the only one I trust with my deepest, darkest secret.
I'm not human.
Then again, neither is my new roommate, and he and ESCU have history. Not the good kind either. But since he seems to think we're mates, his problems are now mine. I'm certainly not going to argue, especially since he's got a razor-sharp teeth and claws. But hey, I'm into that so it works out . . .
Until my estranged father leads ESCU right to my doorstep. Now, I have a choice: either hand over my pizza roll loving tentacle monster boyfriend, or turn myself in to save him.
I knew I shouldn't have gone to work today.
Contains mature themes."
