Naomi is forced to leave her life in the city after a family crisis and ends up in the small town of Knockemout. She soon meets the grumpy and mysterious Knox Morgan who has a reputation for being closed off and the town’s bad boy. Despite their differences, they end up bonding over past trauma and other things they never got over.
Adam and Amelia Wright’s marriage is struggling. In their final attempt to save their relationship, they venture to Scotland on a getaway trip where they stay in an isolated chapel in the woods. Adam has a rare condition that makes it hard for him to recognize faces and Amelia has her own secrets. Their stay at this chapel turns into a game of manipulation and a journey of uncovering the past in unexpected ways.
Dominic Russo’s mom offers Ally Morales a job while dining at a pizza restaurant. Ally is not in the financial place to reject the offer, but she does consider it when she is assigned to be Dominic's assistant. They both have trauma and secrets that start to unfold as they learn more about each other.
King of Sloth is a forced-proximity romance that follows Xavier Castillo, a billionaire-heir, and Sloane Kensington, his publicist. Xavier and Sloane have a relationship of constant bantering and picking fun at one another. Sloane is very annoyed by Xavier all the time. However, the two also find themselves drawn to one another, even though Sloane’s whole thing is being cold-hearted and not being vulnerable because she is scared of getting hurt.
King of Greed by Ana Huang is a second-chance romance that follows Alessandra Davenport and her husband whom she divorces early on in the novel, Dominic Davenport. Dominic is a powerful businessman and has all the money and materialistic items in the world. However, in his quest for more, Alessandra ends up feeling unprioritized and even unloved. When she finally deals him the papers and leaves to find herself again, Dominic realizes just how much he messed up.
It is a second-chance romance, where the two main characters have matured since they have last met. In If the Sun Never Sets, the story is between Blake and Farrah, and when their paths cross five years later. They are both successful businesspeople with different career paths. They reunite through Blake’s friend when he contracts Farrah to be Blake’s new interior designer. Blake gets a second chance with the woman that he has loved since he met her.
In Kristy Boyce’s novel Dating and Dragons, Quinn Norton moved across Ohio to be closer to her eccentric grandma and to start a fresh chapter in her friendships, but now she has to face entering a brand-new school in the middle of her junior year. Things start looking up for Quinn when she meets and flirts with a cute guy named Logan Weber. Additionally, she is invited to join a D&D party at her new school, perfect since her last one utterly imploded.
Twisted Love follows Ava, a photography student with a traumatic past, and Alex, her brother’s best friend, who is cold and driven by his own dark secrets. As their paths intertwine, their intense connection grows, but buried pain and dangerous truths threaten to tear them apart. The story unfolds with unexpected twists, deep emotions, and a love that blurs the line between obsession and devotion.
Mallory Greenleaf has quit chess, a game she used to love and adore, forever. After tragedies struck her family, one after another, she’s stuck at a job she hates, with sisters she hates, and a best friend that may be moving on. Suddenly, Mallory’s world has turned upside down, and at the center of it all is the illusive, mysterious, and unfairly attractive Nolan Sawyer, the #1 chess player on the planet. Worst of all, he’s firmly obsessed with her, and she doesn’t know why.
(500) Days of Summer has to be one of my favorite movies to exist. The movie starts off by showing the viewers the main character, Tom. Tom is looking for love, but he hasn’t had much luck. He meets one of his co-workers, Summer, and immediately falls in love. Summer is very independent and does not believe in love. The movie shows us the 500 days that they were together, and their weird relationship.
