Asking for a friend...I captured a thief. Does that mean I get to keep him?LaineyMy ex-fiancé was a gaslighting cheater, so I broke up with him and moved to a small mountain town for a fresh start. Now I'm working as an assistant to a professional rich woman while I launch my side business offering services for women who have been trampled on in bad breakups.I love my new life, but everything changes when a smooth-talking charmer tries to steal my boss's very expensive necklace. I catch him in a compromising position, but I don't turn him in, because it turns out the necklace was already taken by someone else.Jake claims he’s gone legit and only got pulled into this job because his brother ran into trouble with their former employer. The last thing I want to do is fall under the spell of another charming liar, but if he's telling the truth, he needs me.So I agree to help him, and the next thing I know, he's watching trash TV with me when I can't sleep, helping me deliver FU cookies for my side business, and snuggling with my cat...He may be a former criminal, but he's better to me than my ex ever was.JakeNo one could accuse me of being a standup guy, but Lainey makes me want to be one. The more time I spend with this perplexing, gorgeous woman, the more I want to make her mine.**An interconnected standalone in the Unlucky in Love series**

She’s the desperate CEO hired to rebrand a sleepy Southern orchard. He’s the stubborn heir determined to see her fail.All’s fair in love and farming.JaneI fix things. It’s what I do.So when I’m hired to fix what’s broken at Sugar Maple Farms, I see an even bigger project in the form of the sexy, surly, six-foot-five owner, Tripp Carville.Tripp may be a thorn in my side, but lucky for him, I can see beyond his impressive, prickly front to the wounded boy underneath.And I know exactly how to fix him: I’m going to make him fall back in love with Sugar Maple Farms.Now if I can just keep myself from falling in love with him in the process.TrippI’ve never been enough for the people around me, not for my parents before they died and not for the tough grandfather who raised me. When he unexpectedly passes, leaving me the famous (and failing) Sugar Maple Farms, all I want is to sell so I can leave the weight of being a Carville behind.Until Jane shows up.The woman is smart, salty, and sexy as can be. I can't admit it, but her vision for Sugar Maple Farms is captivating. Everything about her is captivating. While we spend every day arguing, I spend every night thinking about her.I’m damaged beyond repair, and after never being enough for the people in my life, if I can’t be enough for Jane, I don’t think I’ll ever recover.So I can’t let Jane in.No matter how badly I want to.Strawberry Fields for Never is a swoony closed door romcom full of delicious banter and crackling chemistry, but with no explicit scenes. It's the first in a series of standalone novels featuring five best friends.

Ugh, Christmas. Not a fan. So why am I wearing a Santa suit and letting frisky moms paw me at a reindeer ranch?It might have something to do with the family crisis that drew me home between tours as a career Marine. Or maybe it’s my urge to cozy up with the prickly reindeer rancher whose curves give me visions of something way hotter than sugarplums. Jade King isn’t thrilled I’m here, and she’d be less thrilled to know her sister hired me to keep an eye on things. Someone’s set on sabotaging the ranch, so I’ve got a built-in excuse to get close to Jade.I could swear the attraction’s mutual, but something’s holding her back. Some secret in her past that has her pushing me away like a bad batch of eggnog. It’s almost as baffling as all these accidents at the King sisters’ place. Seriously, who’d screw with a reindeer ranch? Between sexy Santa suit malfunctions and risqué Christmas cookies, Jade and I keep ending up under the mistletoe together.Is there any chance we can mesh our Christmas wish lists, or will it all crash down like a fat man in an iron sleigh?

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A Romantic Comedy!Have you ever brought your ex-husband home and pretended to still be married?Yeah, me either.When my local hospital calls to say “I’m sorry to tell you this, but your husband has been in an accident” I try to explain the basics to them.I am not married—anymore. (Archie Dunmore is a thing of the past.)If there’s a husband in the hospital, it’s not mine.Except Archie is back, and he's been in an accident. One that has left him with amnesia. Yup. He believes we’re still happily married. Oh joy.Too bad for me, the doctor believes it would be best for Archie to remember things on his own. He needs familiar surroundings to heal.No big shocks.No emotional trauma.Which means I can’t tell him the truth.Archie bursts back into my life with all the warmth and joy of a freshly married man, confident that I’m the love of his life, and determined to fix the rift between us.Except how do I tell him that he walked out on me?Especially when Archie is desperately trying to remember what I’ve worked so hard to forget.What’s a girl to do with an amnesiac ex-husband at her breakfast table?Note for the readers on what you will find in this story:NO CHEATING in this story! Absolute zero. Not gonna happen, captain.NO OW drama. No OM drama for that matter either.Single POV: (only the prologue has a different narrator..and you’ll love her. Or else. Because Margaret is the best.)VERY low angst. If you’re looking for a good cry…well, there’s only tears of laughter in this story. Sorry.Content TW: Adult conversations discussing substance abuse and assault referring to a past incident.