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Love, Pending Inspection cover

Love, Pending Inspection

An apartment inspector falls for the adult tenant whose homemade repairs are the pride of his building. Finding a safe way to keep neighbors housed forces them to distinguish practical care from rules designed mainly to protect appearances.

Romance
The Love Potion Is for the Houseplants cover

The Love Potion Is for the Houseplants

A botanist witch and a skeptical electrician try rescuing a greenhouse whose plants have fallen extravagantly in love. The remedy requires honest attention, which is becoming their own most inconvenient habit.

Paranormal romance
The Astronaut Failed Our First Date cover

The Astronaut Failed Our First Date

A spaceflight trainer can prepare anyone for an emergency except herself for an ordinary date. The calm chef hired for a simulated mission refuses to treat their growing attraction like another assessment.

Romance
Our First Date Is a Séance cover

Our First Date Is a Séance

A skeptical event planner and an adult medium agree to one fake date at a disastrously sincere séance. The ghost has a request; their growing attraction has no useful script.

Paranormal romance
A Wedding for the Wrong Apocalypse cover

A Wedding for the Wrong Apocalypse

A florist and a bunker architect are hired to stage the world's last wedding, but receive incompatible forecasts of its ending.

Romance
Two Left Skates and a Wedding cover

Two Left Skates and a Wedding

An adult kiteboarder promises to skate at her sister's ice-rink wedding despite having no idea how. The exacting coach who teaches her discovers that being needed feels different from being chosen.

Romance
We Broke the Lab's No-Dancing Rule cover

We Broke the Lab's No-Dancing Rule

A laboratory manager and a professional dancer teach movement classes to fund repairs after a disastrous open day. Their best routine exposes how differently they imagine a life beyond their work.

Romance
Divorce Me on Tuesday cover

Divorce Me on Tuesday

A marriage registrar and a divorce lawyer agree to test whether a perfect breakup can be planned before a first date.

Romance
My Favorite Enemy Fixes Umbrellas cover

My Favorite Enemy Fixes Umbrellas

A perfectionist hotel concierge repeatedly clashes with the street repairer who refuses to replace useful things. Saving the hotel's lost-property room makes their arguments feel suspiciously like courtship.

Romance
We Only Meet During Evacuations cover

We Only Meet During Evacuations

Two strangers keep meeting at evacuation assembly points and start scheduling disaster drills to see each other, until a genuine evacuation forces them to decide what a relationship looks like when nobody is telling them where to stand.

Romance
The Baroness Bought a Bus cover

The Baroness Bought a Bus

A newly independent baroness buys an unreliable motorbus and hires the mechanic who insists she learn to drive it herself. Their first public route becomes a comic battle over destinations, reputation, and whether a shared future needs one person at the wheel.

Romance
We Lost the Bride and Found Each Other cover

We Lost the Bride and Found Each Other

The bride's practical sister and the groom's chaotic best friend search for a woman who has deliberately left her own wedding. Finding her safely means respecting her choice and reconsidering their own ideas about love.

Romance
Our Worst Holiday Won a Prize cover

Our Worst Holiday Won a Prize

A travel claims assessor discovers her disastrous trip with a stranger has won a romantic-holiday award. Returning for the ceremony means deciding which parts of the disaster they secretly miss.

Romance
One Ticket Past Your Stop cover

One Ticket Past Your Stop

A train announcer keeps inventing reasons to extend her journey with a reserved landscape painter. When the railway asks them to advertise a perfect escape, they must admit what they are actually leaving.

Romance
The Spare Key Arrangement cover

The Spare Key Arrangement

An architect and a florist discover that their leases promise each of them the same spare room.

Romance
The Lifeguard Stole My Bucket List cover

The Lifeguard Stole My Bucket List

An anxious travel writer hands her ambitious summer list to the wrong man: a lifeguard who is secretly afraid of deep water. They agree to trade one impossible task each week.

Romance
The Moon Has Terrible Footwork cover

The Moon Has Terrible Footwork

The moon takes human form to enter an amateur boxing tournament, hiring a retired champion to teach it how to lose fairly.

Romance
The Spare Room Comes with Applause cover

The Spare Room Comes with Applause

An introverted pianist rents a room above a failing comedy club. The club's optimistic manager offers quiet practice hours in exchange for music that makes his worst jokes bearable.

Romance