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What to read after “Natural Born Charmer” by Susan Elizabeth Phillips: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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From Lukov with Love
Mariana Zapata · 2018
Same genre: “Contemporary romance” and “Sports romance”
- Sports Romance
- Forced Proximity
Jasmine's pairs figure-skating career is nearly over when her former partner leaves. The only skater willing to take her on is Ivan Lukov, her longtime rival, and she has no choice but to accept. Months of gruelling shared training force them past years of resentment and into reluctant trust.
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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.
3
Icebreaker
Hannah Grace · 2022
Same genre: “Contemporary romance” and “Sports romance”
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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Twice Shy
Sarah Hogle · 2021
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
- Grumpy Sunshine
- Forced Proximity
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 Roommate
Rosie Danan · 2020
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
- Grumpy Sunshine
- Forced Proximity
Clara leaves her buttoned-up East Coast life to move across the country to the man of her dreams, only to find he has sublet her room to someone else. Sharing the apartment with easygoing Josh, whose job would scandalise her family, forces an uneasy friendship that slowly becomes more.
6
It Happened One Summer
Tessa Bailey · 2021
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
After a Hollywood party scandal, Piper is cut off and sent to a rainy Washington fishing town to run her late father's bar. The town's grumpy sea captain wants her gone, but the summer pushes the socialite and the fisherman into an uneasy partnership that softens into more.
7
Things We Never Got Over
Lucy Score · 2022
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
Naomi arrives in the small town of Knockemout to help her estranged twin, who promptly robs her and leaves her stranded with the young niece she never knew she had. With no car, job, or home, she turns for help to Knox, the town's grumpy, bearded barber, who claims he wants nothing to do with anyone but keeps turning up as she starts over.
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Beach Read
Emily Henry · 2020
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
- Grumpy Sunshine
- Forced Proximity
Romance writer January and literary novelist Gus become summer neighbours in a lakeside town, both blocked and both skeptical of each other's genre. They make a bet to write in the other's style and slowly trade barbs for late-night talks, discovering the grief and hope behind their different worldviews.
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The Bodyguard
Katherine Center · 2022
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
Hannah, a small but capable bodyguard, is sent to protect movie star Jack Stapleton at his family ranch after a stalker threat. To keep the assignment secret she poses as his girlfriend, sharing his home and his family's grief while trying to stay professional.
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The Charm Offensive
Alison Cochrun · 2021
Same genre: “Contemporary romance”
- Grumpy Sunshine
- Forced Proximity
Anxious tech genius Charlie is the reluctant star of a reality dating show, and producer Dev is tasked with helping him connect with the contestants. Behind the cameras their unlikely friendship turns into a romance that neither can script.
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The Cheat Sheet
Sarah Adams · 2021
Same genre: “Contemporary romance” and “Sports romance”
- Sports Romance
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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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.