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I had so much fun reading The Love Wager. It has the wonderful humor I’ve come to love from Painter’s stories and I could feel the sparks fly between Jack and Hallie. It's a terrific romcom.
Jack and Hallie meet at Colin and Olivia’s wedding (from Mr. Wrong Number) where Hallie is ba ...
The Marriage Season is excellently researched and a fun, if somewhat sedate, Regency.
Widowed thanks to the war of 1812, country mouse Sybella Lovatt is out on the marriage mart again, but not for herself. Instead, she’s searching the ton for a spouse for her younger sister, Lucie, who also hap ...
“Be honest and be yourself” is the dating advice given back when I was single. Partners in Crime is a rom-com that explores lying to your love and what happens when your lies implode.
Amira Patel is unlucky in love. Or unlovable. She’s not sure which it is but she does know that being dumpe ...
There’s no sophomore slump in sight for Kerry Rea in her refreshingly, intelligently funny romantic comedy Lucy on the Wild Side.
Lucy Rourke is a junior primate keeper at an Ohio zoo. Known for her devotion to gorillas and her aversion to fundraising (as her friend points out, she’s attended ...
Do you want a historical romance that’s a break from angst? Something that, while not particularly plausible, is a whimsical good time? How to Marry a Highlander by Katharine Ashe could be just the lighthearted read you’ve been looking for.
Duncan, Earl of Eads, inherited a broke earldom an ...
After being ditched at the altar, Emmy Shaw’s heart, like her dented food truck, is definitely not open for business. Deeply in debt to her parents and evicted from her apartment, she takes a friend’s drunken dare and fills out an application for a new dating-adventure reality show. She never ex ...
The first book in a new series by H.L. Day, The Reluctant Companion is a light-hearted fantasy adventure featuring an opposites-attract romance between a snarky farm boy and a handsome charmer who team up – reluctantly, as the title suggests – to undertake a quest, and fall for each other along ...
I’ve been meaning to read this one for ages and am really pleased I finally got around to it. The Happy List is a wonderful friends-to-lovers/opposites-attract romance featuring life-long best friends, Gray and Kai who couldn’t be more different. Gray is somewhat rigid and set in his ways; h ...
The Singles Table is the whimsical, warm-hearted third novel in Sara Desai’s Marriage Game series. Each book stars members of the very large and extended Patel family but you do not have to have read any of the previous volumes to enjoy this one.
Zara Patel is determined never to marry. That do ...
Hitched to the Gunslinger is goofy. It even has phonetically spelled dialogue. But it is so funny and so charming that I couldn’t help but enjoy the entire enterprise of reading it.
The amazingly-named Gray ‘Quick Shot’ Woodson is a newly retired gunslinger trying to figure out how the ...