Dates, Debts, And Dates (A Short Story Collection)

Author: Manik Bal

Category: Contemporary Romance

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Some debts are financial. Some are emotional. The ones that haunt you most are the ones you never agreed to carry.

In eight unforgettable stories set in the cities of Bombay and Bangalore, Manik Bal brings together a cast of ordinary people navigating the weight of their choices. A musician who can't outrun the ghost of a first love. A young bride discovering the distance between the life she imagined and the one she's been handed. A man who hasn't visited his childhood neighborhood in decades — and the phone call that makes him reckon with why. A boy whose recklessness one night costs him everything.

These are not dramatic lives. They are yours, your parents', your neighbors'. But in Bal's precise, empathetic hands, the familiar becomes quietly devastating — and quietly beautiful.

Dates, Debts, and Dates is Book Five in the celebrated Odd Tales from Bombay and Bangalore series — and a collection that proves, once again, that the most extraordinary stories are hiding inside the most ordinary lives.

For readers of R.K. Narayan, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Raymond Carver. For anyone who has ever asked: what do we owe the people we've left behind?

The Ballycove Vow

Author: Maeve McBride

Category: Contemporary Romance

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She needs a husband. He needs a wife. Neither one planned to need each other.Burned-out Dublin coder Eimear Hanly inherits her grandfather's crumbling sheep farm on Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way, but only if she's married before August. Stoic farmer Aodhán O'Malley can't win custody of his orphaned niece without a stable two-parent home. A practical arrangement, strictly on paper: no strings, no feelings, no complications.Then the complications arrive.Renovating a tumbledown cottage together. Midnight stories on the cliff's edge. A small girl who starts calling Eimear by a name that isn't "Miss Hanly." Under Ballycove's wide summer skies, keeping things businesslike proves harder than either of them bargained for. And Aodhán's quiet steadiness is doing something very inconvenient to Eimear's carefully guarded heart.When a sharp-eyed social worker begins pulling at the threads of their whirlwind wedding, every stolen glance and almost-kiss could unravel everything. Aodhán can't lose his niece. Eimear can't survive another abandonment. And the only way to protect what they've built is to risk the one thing their contract never covered: the truth.Perfect for fans of sweet marriage-of-convenience romance, slow-burn Irish love stories, and found-family warmth. The Ballycove Vow is the prequel to the Love in Ballycove series, a wonderful place to start.

Sweet Rivals

Author: Amber Reed

Category: Contemporary Romance

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An anonymous online connection and a mysterious celebrity chef throw a wrench into Jenna’s otherwise predictable, if lonely, life.This enemies to lovers romantic comedy delivers the 90s romcom feels with spicy forced proximity, hilarious hijinks, small town romance and a beach bake off rivalry.Jenna has only ever been able to sustain a relationship with the stranger in her online bakery management class. But he exists through a screen. So he doesn’t count. In real life, the long distance relationships forged with visitors to her small beach town end shortly after the whirlwind of other people’s vacations. She’s stuck working her parent's restaurant, putting her own dreams on permanent pause.None of that matters though. She has her sights set on opening a beach bakery and living happily ever after, romance be damned. Until the famous, arrogant, and unfortunately stunning, TV Chef, Jared Wallace, shows up to buy the bakery out from under her, ruining everything. Now her new life goal is to ruin him by any means necessary. The only problem? She can't seem to hate him the way she is supposed to.Sweet Rivals is an interconnected stand alone in the Cape Shore Romance Series."If You Love Enemies to Lovers, This Book Is It!" ~Goodreads Review"The Chemistry is Palpable!" ~Goodreads Review

Seaside Summers (Books 1–3)

Author: Melissa Foster

Category: Contemporary Romance

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Seaside Summers features a group of fun, sexy, and emotional friends who gather each summer at their Cape Cod cottages. They’re funny, flawed, and will have you begging to enter their circle of friends.

3-Book Boxed Set

IN SEASIDE DREAMS
Bella Abbascia has returned to Seaside Cottages in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, as she does every summer. Only this year, Bella has more on her mind than sunbathing and skinny-dipping with her girlfriends. She's quit her job, put her house on the market, and sworn off relationships while she builds a new life in her favorite place on earth. That is, until good-time Bella's prank takes a bad turn and a sinfully sexy police officer appears on the scene.

Single father and police officer Caden Grant left Boston with his fourteen-year-old son, Evan, after his partner was killed in the line of duty. He hopes to find a safer life in the small resort town of Wellfleet, and when he meets Bella during a night patrol shift, he realizes he's found the one thing he'd never allowed himself to hope for--or even realized he was missing.

After fourteen years of focusing solely on his son, Caden cannot resist the intense attraction he feels toward beautiful Bella, and Bella's powerless to fight the heat of their budding romance. But starting over proves more difficult than either of them imagined, and when Evan gets mixed up with the wrong kids, Caden's loyalty is put to the test. Will he give up everything to protect his son--even Bella?

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IN SEASIDE HEARTS
Jenna Ward is vivacious, spontaneous, and confident--except when she's around the man who stole her heart years earlier, strikingly handsome, quiet, and reliable Pete Lacroux. After years of trying to get his attention and overwhelmed from dealing with her mother's new cougar lifestyle, Jenna's giving up on Peter--and is ready to explore other men.

As the eldest of five siblings, with an alcoholic father to care for, boat craftsman Pete Lacroux always does the right thing and has no time for a real relationship. He's looking forward to seeing his friend Jenna, a welcome distraction who's so damn sexy and so painfully shy that she equally entertains and confuses him.

When Jenna picks up a hard-bodied construction worker, jealousy ignites Pete's true feelings, and he's powerless to ignore the desires for Jenna he never realized he had. But Pete's not the quiet guy he appears to be, and his life is anything but conducive to a relationship. Can Jenna handle the real Pete Lacroux--the sexiest, most passionate alpha male she's ever seen--or will she crack under pressure? And can Pete reclaim the life he once had without tearing apart his family?

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IN SEASIDE SUNSETS
Jessica Ayers has lived a sheltered life with little more than cello lessons and practices taking up her day. Now a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, she escapes the prim and proper symphony to vacation in the Seaside community in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and determine if she is living life to the fullest or missing it altogether.

For the first time since developing the second largest search engine in the world, billionaire Jamie Reed is taking the summer off. He plans to work from the Cape and spend time with his elderly grandmother--and falling in love is not in his plans.

From the moment Jamie and Jessica meet, the attraction is white-hot. Once-overly-focused Jamie can think of little else than sensual, smart, and alluring Jessica, and Jessica discovers a side of herself she never knew existed. But when Jamie’s business encounters trouble and his attorney and best friend intervenes, he proves that the blond beauty is too distracting for Jamie. To make matters worse, it appears that Jessica might not be who she says she is, turning Jamie’s life—and his heart—upside down. In a world where personal information is always one click away, Jamie must decide if he should trust his heart or watch the woman he loves walk away.

The Wedding Twist

Author: Elle Douglas

Category: Contemporary Romance

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She’s trying to save her future. He’s trying to save his business. Falling for each other would ruin everything.Celeste McCarthy has always believed Butterfly Lake Lodge would be part of her future—until her parents announce they’re selling it. Determined to prove she can stand on her own, she signs up for a practical evening class.She doesn’t expect the instructor to be Jack Wallace.Rugged, stubborn, and impossible to ignore, Jack is a local fly-fishing guide fighting to keep his business afloat after a flashy newcomer starts stealing clients. The last thing he needs is a distraction—especially one as fiery and determined as Celeste.But when wedding festivities at the lodge force them into each other’s orbit, irritation turns into attraction neither of them can deny. With the future of the lodge hanging in the balance and Jack’s livelihood on the line, they’ll have to decide whether this is the worst possible time to fall in love … or the only time that matters. A small-town, opposites attract romance full of tension, chemistry, and emotional stakes.

Breaking His Boundaries

Author: VH Nicolson

Category: Contemporary Romance

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A BRAND NEW opposites attract billionaire romance from VH Nicolson For fans of Sadie Kincaid, Naomi West and T. L. Swan.Praise for VH Nicolson:‘VH Nicolson’s characters will touch your heart and her storytelling will always leave you wanting more.’ Sadie Kincaid'A fan-yourself billionaire romance you'll think about long after the last page.' Elle NicollElijah: she’s an obsession I can’t control.I thrive on order. Precision. Control. Organising Hart Law’s staff event this year is a disruption I do not need. Especially if it means working closely with Sapphire Feelgood. Event organiser and sunshine in human form. She’s bright, bubbly, and allergic to the word no. We clash instantly—her enthusiasm grates, her ideas overwhelm, and her smile… distracts far more than it should.I don’t do chaos. Or temptation. But Sapphire is both and she knows just how to push my polished buttons and dismantle my boundaries…Sapphire: I want to know every part of him.Eli Hart may be beautiful, but he’s also the grumpiest man I’ve ever met. He challenges everything—my ideas, my optimism, my patience. But somewhere between the tension and the teasing, I start seeing the real man beneath the perfect suits, but I know he’s still hiding secrets. He pushes me away. I push right back. It becomes our game. Every moment together sparks hotter than the last.And the more he tries to hold the line, the more I want to be the one who finally makes him cross it…Tropes: Billionaire romance Workplace / working together Opposites attract (he's strict, she's wild) Grumpy sunshine Forced proximity Hurt / comfort Spicy