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Natural Born Charmer
Susan Elizabeth Phillips · 2007
Same genre: “Contemporary romance” and “Sports romance”
- Sports Romance
- Forced Proximity
Pro quarterback Dean, restless and disillusioned with his gilded life, picks up a hitchhiker in a beaver costume on a Colorado highway. Blue, a broke portrait painter running from her past, takes the ride, and their uneasy road trip leads to a Tennessee farmhouse where two guarded people begin to build a life and a makeshift family.
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The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Mariana Zapata · 2016
Same genre: “Contemporary romance” and “Sports romance”
Vanessa spends years as the assistant to Aiden Graves, a silent, demanding football star, and finally quits. He then turns up at her door to ask her back and follows it with a bigger request: a marriage of convenience that helps his immigration case. The practical bargain and the time it forces them to spend together wear down his reserve.
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Icebreaker
Hannah Grace · 2022
Same genre: “Contemporary romance” and “Sports romance”
- Sports Romance
- Forced Proximity
A rink scheduling clash forces competitive figure skater Anastasia to share the ice with the hockey team and its captain, Nate. What starts as irritation grows into friendship and then something more as she chases a national title and he tries to hold his team together.
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The Cheat Sheet
Sarah Adams · 2021
Same genre: “Contemporary romance” and “Sports romance”
- Sports Romance
- Slow Burn
Ballet dancer Bree has been secretly in love with her best friend Nathan, a football star, for years. When a publicity plan calls for Nathan to have a girlfriend, Bree agrees to play the role, risking the friendship she cannot imagine losing.
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Book Lovers
Emily Henry · 2022
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
Literary agent Nora is the cold city professional that small-town romance novels leave behind, and editor Charlie is her sharp-tongued rival in the same business. When her sister drags her to a North Carolina town for the summer, Charlie turns out to be there too, and their sparring slowly becomes something neither expected.
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Fix Her Up
Tessa Bailey · 2019
Same genre: “Contemporary romance” and “Sports romance”
- Sports Romance
Georgie, the party clown her family never takes seriously, has loved her brother's best friend Travis for years. When the injured former baseball star needs a respectable image and she wants to be seen as an adult, they fake a relationship, and the act starts feeling far too real.
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Bet Me
Jennifer Crusie · 2004
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Slow Burn
Minerva overhears her ex-boyfriend bet the charming Cal that he can get her into bed within a month, so she accepts his dinner invitation to turn the tables. The sceptical actuary and the commitment-shy businessman keep colliding through meddling friends and sheer bad luck, resisting an attraction neither of them wants.
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The Unhoneymooners
Christina Lauren · 2019
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
After food poisoning strikes at her twin sister's wedding, unlucky Olive takes her sister's place on a free Hawaiian honeymoon, but her sworn enemy Ethan has to come too. Stranded together and posing as newlyweds to keep the perks, the two bicker their way toward something neither expected.
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The Deal
Elle Kennedy · 2015
Same genre: “Contemporary romance” and “Sports romance”
- Sports Romance
Hockey captain Garrett needs a passing grade, and quiet music student Hannah needs the courage to approach her crush. They strike a deal: she tutors him, he pretends to date her. Studying late into the night, the fake arrangement deepens into trust and a real attraction neither of them expected.
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Birthday Girl
Penelope Douglas · 2018
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
- Forced Proximity
- Slow Burn
When nineteen-year-old Jordan and her boyfriend have nowhere else to go, they move in with his father, Pike. Sharing the house, she finds in the guarded older man the steadiness her life has lacked, and they both fight an attraction that is off-limits by every rule that matters.
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Twice Shy
Sarah Hogle · 2021
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
- Forced Proximity
- Slow Burn
Maybell inherits her great-aunt's crumbling house in the Smoky Mountains, only to learn the grouchy groundskeeper Wesley is a co-inheritor with very different plans. Forced to renovate together, the dreamer and the shy, scowling loner slowly find in each other the safety they have always wanted.
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The Simple Wild
K.A. Tucker · 2018
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
Toronto city girl Calla flies to remote Alaska to see the father she has not seen since her mother took her away as a toddler. There she clashes with Jonah, the proud bush pilot who flies for her father's charter company and thinks she does not belong. Weeks in the unforgiving landscape slowly wear down both their defences.