A fake dating arrangement turns to real love in this deliciously delightful queer rom-com from the author of the sweetly satisfying Chef’s Kiss.
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Seattle Picks: Romance
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- A disgraced soccer executive reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children's team.
- Set in Sydney, Australia, Courting Samira is a charming and frothy romantic comedy about a twenty-seven-year-old Palestinian woman who finds herself in an unexpected love triangle—a sparkling ode to meddling best friends, traditional courtship, The…
- Lambda Literary award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur returns with a steamy sapphic rom-com about a quiet bookseller and a romance novel cover model who agree to a modern-day marriage of convenience.
- After discovering her husband is having an affair, Rachel Abbott agrees to keep playing the ideal Black trophy wife until after his reelection campaign but finds it hard to keep her side of the bargain when she falls in love with an artist whose…
- Poppy, a Victorian sex worker, awakens in a cobwebbed manor to find herself a creature out of a nightmare. Her only companion, Roisin, is a traumatized, stern vampire who has firm rules about drinking from humans (never) and sleeping with Poppy…
- Harlow Estrada returns to the enchanted Hacienda Estrada, a family farm in Mexico where her mother, sisters, aunt and cousins harness the magic of charmed flowers, but when she’s chosen to watch over the farm, she panics since she, herself, is…
- When Georgie suddenly loses her job as a personal assistant, she heads home to her parents to regroup. While there, she comes across a teenage diary and uses it to explore her life. (LibraryReads)
- Hired to break a curse on an infamous Scottish castle, Riley Rhodes meets a disgraced archaeologist, Clark Edgeware, who tries to get her fired for being in the way, sparking more than anger between them.
- Seeking refuge in London from the French occupation of Mexico, a Mexican heiress enjoys her first taste of freedom away from her domineering father and the scorching looks she begins receiving from a member of Parliament, Gideon Fox.
- When her best friend is accused of stealing a multimillion-dollar diamond necklace, Simi Chopra, to clear her friend’s name and collect the substantial reward, transforms a ragtag group of strangers into an elite heist crew with the help of a…
- Peeraphan Rahttana lives her life in Seattle, unaware of the complicated magical world spinning just beyond the shadows... until a violent clash outside her dance rehearsal has her literally whisked off her feet. Her rescuer, vampire Bennet Andrews,…
- A shy bookworm enlists her charming neighbor to help her score a date, not knowing he’s the obscure author she’s been corresponding with.
- Former enemies-turn-friends, Ari, a struggling comedian, and Josh, a chef planning to take the culinary world by storm, both reeling from ego-bruising breakups, find comfort in each other’s company until one night, the unspoken boundaries of their…
- To save her business in 1832 London, heiress Isabelle Lira must quickly marry a powerful ally outside of her rivals’ sphere of influence, and offers synagogue custodian Aaron Ellenberg money for a new life if he vets her suitors only to find herself…
- A young noblewoman must pair up with an alleged witch to ward off a curse in this sapphic romance set 1814.
- Pretending to reconcile to salvage their reputations and throw the ton off their scent, Miss Regina Leyland, the author of a scandalous book taking London by storm, and the Earl of Knightly, who left her at the altar, find their false friendship…
- Jana Suleiman has never really fit in--everyone sees her as too aloof, too cool, too perfect. The one time she did let loose, she ended up with a baby. And while her daughter is the best thing that ever happened to her, now Jana knows better. No…
- Enjoying one last summer of freedom before being trapped in a loveless marriage, Manuela accepts an invitation to show her paintings in Paris.
- Shielding herself from the world behind the safety of her camera lens, photographer Ayah Fleming is pulled into the past when she returns home and uncovers the truth about her descendants with the help of a man who makes her long for a brighter…
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