Ok so the list is late this month, but it’s because I got covid and was out for the count for two and a half weeks and am now stuck playing catch-up!! Also, stay tuned for another set of recs coming shortly based on KDrama tropes in honour of the first book on this list!
Scandalized by Ivy Owens (CF, M/F)
I won’t lie, it’s weird to read books where the main character has my name, but this one I am willing to cringe through because it looks so so so good. Stuck in an airport overnight after missing her flight, Georgia Ross runs into the brother of her childhood friend, Alec Kim, now a successful Kdrama actor, and a night of wild no strings attached passion ensues… but will one night be enough??
Mad About You by Mhari McFarlane (CF, M/F)
This latest by Mhari McFarlane follows Harriet Hatley, a wedding photographer, who calls off her engagement to "the perfect man" and moves in with a charming stranger, Cal Clarke, who makes her question everything about her life, her past, and the secrets she's kept for far too long…
Heartbreaker by Sarah Maclean (HF, M/F)
The latest in Maclean’s Bombshell series follows Adelaide Frampton who masquerades as a quiet wallflower to use her superior skills as a thief to help brides avoid the altar, but alas alack she finds herself stuck in a carriage with the Duke of Clayborn on a race across Britain to stop another marriage and….hello love?
In a Jam by Kate Canterbary (CF, M/F)
First of all, I love Kate Canterbary, second of all a MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE with a SINGLE DAD and a TULIP FARM and UNREQUITED HIGHSCHOOL LOVE ???!!! Let’s fucking goooooo!!!
The Hook-Up Plan by Farrah Rochon (CF, M/F)
Pediatric surgeon, London Kelley, needs to blow off some steam with a casual no-strings hookup, enter her former high-school archnemesis Drew Sullivan and here we go!
Would You Rather by Allison Ashley (CF, M/F)
Listen to me DO NOT WATCH PURPLE HEART READ THIS INSTEAD. Friends Noah and Mia get fake married so that she can receive health insurance while awaiting a kidney transplant, and of course what ensues is a slow burn, angsty, lush romance. Once again, DO NOT WATCH PURPLE HEART this is the marriage of convenience for medical insurance romance you need, that doesn’t include racism and misogyny!
Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson (CF, M/F)
PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh is obsessed with true crime so of course, while stuck in Florida for the summer cleaning out her recently deceased father’s house she becomes convinced her next-door neighbor, the handsome Sam Dennings, is up to no good, or…maybe he’s just a nice, hot guy, which, in Phoebe’s eyes, might be even worse!
Mixed Signals by BK Borison (CF, M/F)
Don’t even get me started on how much I love the entire Lovelight series. Just trust me and read this.