Elizabeth's Trilogy (Sweet Existence: Boxed Set Book 1) by Aurora Darklight

A carton of ice cream and an infomercial changed my life …

Drive, focus, and a solid plan for my future never left time for any of the fun things in school. Not that it mattered, guys never looked at the tall chubby nerdy girl.

And they still don’t, now that I’m a thirty-something professional woman. Not that I give them a chance working six days a week and spending most of the seventh doing laundry or watching movies with my best friend. How did the perfect life become boring?
When my best friend agrees to jump into the exciting unknown with me, endless opportunities appear.

None of them make my heart flutter until I see him. Kent, a luxury hotel manager, is everything I could ever dream of in a man. Kind, thoughtful, a brilliant businessman, and game to join into any zany adventure I come up with. Not to mention he’s taller than me when I wear heels.

A guy like that would never like a girl like me …

What (Not) to Expect When You're Expecting: A Workplace Pregnancy Romance by M. J. Fredrick

Timing is everything. Bailey Summers is very good at taking care of herself. So good, in fact, that she shuts others out with very little effort. But when her brother and his partner want a child, she pushes out of her comfort zone and offers to be their surrogate. It’s just nine months out of her life, right? Right. Because of course when she’s struggling with morning sickness, she encounters the hottest man she’s ever met. To make matters worse, he’s the new bartender at her popular bar. Rick Cassidy comes with his own complications. He’s a middle school teacher taking a summer job as a bartender to help out his brother’s family. His brother is in a rehab hospital after colliding with a drunk driver, and Rick is trying to help them make ends meet. He’s just out of a relationship himself, with a woman who couldn’t handle him spending so much time caring for his brother. So what’s he doing eyeballing his boss, the boss of a job he needs? But late nights, close quarters and second-trimester hormones overrule better judgement, and complications intertwine. This is definitely not what they were expecting. Excerpt: When they reached the doctor’s office, Bailey had to pry her fingers off the “oh shit” handle above her head. Rick frowned at her. “What’s wrong?” “What’s wrong?” Her voice cracked. “You drive like a lunatic!” “You said you were in a hurry.” “I don’t see how that was any better for me than driving my tempermental car, seriously.” Also, she’d never ridden in a vehicle that was so exposed. Every time a car had passed by, inches from her leg, with no door in between, she thought she was going to lose her lunch, which miraculously was staying down these days. She shuddered. “Well, you’re here, aren’t you?” She got out of the vehicle on shaky legs and prayed Mitch would be able to take her back to the bar. “Thanks for the ride. You don’t need to go in.” He looked surprised at that, and glanced from her to the building. “I’ll just wait with you until Mitch and Dean get here.” A small punch of relief rolled through her. She hated going to the doctor, sitting in the waiting room with those endless infomercials on the television with the perpetually chipper hosts talking about terrifying things, waiting because so many patients were booked at the same time. And she was so different from them—not usually something she had trouble with, but these days, she felt particularly sensitive to the idea. She nodded and let him hold the building door for her. She checked in at the window while he scouted seats, finally asking a roundly pregnant woman if she could scoot over a chair so they could sit together. Bailey watched as the woman blushed, smiled, and did as he asked. Rick rewarded her with that damned sexy smile and Bailey felt the kick of it in her own gut. As she sat beside him, she was aware of the other patients—many with kids already, fidgeting and making her want to fidget as well. The women looked at Rick, the only man here, through their lashes, out of the corners of their eyes, and cast Bailey assessing looks. For just a fraction of a moment, she let herself wonder what it would be like to come in here pregnant with her own child, with her man beside her, to feel the same excitement and anticipation these women were feeling. But that wasn’t the life she had planned out for herself. She was a successful businesswoman, content with her life. Families were complicated, and her life was simple. She liked it that way.

Faking It by Elisa Lorello

After breaking off her engagement, thirty-something writing professor Andi Cutrone abandons New England for her native Long Island to focus on her career and start over. When she meets Devin at a cocktail party, the sight of an honest-to-goodness male escort shocks her—and fascinates her more than a little. Months later, Andi impulsively calls Devin. Over cheesecake in Brooklyn, she offers him a proposition: he will teach her how to be a better lover, and in return, she will give him writing lessons. He agrees, and together they embark upon an intense partnership that proves to be as instructive as it is arousing. For in the midst of lessons in rhetorical theory and foreplay, Andi and Devin delve into deeper questions about truth, beauty, and self, gradually coming face-to-face with the issues at the core of their emotional limitations. Smart, witty, and introspective, Faking It is an engrossing novel about two people discovering their authentic selves.

Just for Kicksby Tracy Solheim

It was supposed to be just for kicks…

Andi Larsen learned early on there is no such thing as fairy godmothers. A childhood spent in foster care will do that to a girl. She’s working her way through night school and is on the cusp of establishing her own business without help from anyone, thank you very much. But when her deadbeat ex steals her identity, amassing a staggering debt in her name, her fairy godmother appears in the guise of a spunky, Fireball whisky-wielding septuagenarian. The older woman’s solution for Andi? Tie the knot with a kilt-wearing, moody jock whose legs look sexier in a skirt than hers do.

Declan Fletcher never intended to be a place-kicker for a professional football team. But fate had other plans. Exiled from his beloved Scotland a decade ago, Dex is now a superstar athlete known throughout the league as the “Man with the Million Dollar Leg.” But when a mix-up in his immigration paperwork threatens to send him home before the season begins, he’ll do anything to avoid deportation and facing his greatest mistake. Even if it means marrying a pink-haired waif of a lass with eyes that seem to see everything he’s determined to keep hidden.

A grumpy cat, nosy teammates, and a sizzling sexual attraction make their marriage of convenience anything but convenient.

Fake It For Nowby Weston Parker

It’s time to fake it for the public.

Selling love hasn’t given me the upper hand on love yet.

But romance is messy and inconvenient.

I’m interested in passion and pleasure. The rest is overrated.

Unfortunately, a recent round of internet rumors might kill my billion-dollar business.

Time to make a change. To look like the kind of guy that is interested in commitment.

A fake fiancée for a month should prove to the clients that I’m not the playboy everyone thinks I am.

What they don’t know won’t hurt them. Besides, my private life is, well, private!

Luckily enough, this beautiful, curvy woman that takes the job wants something in return.

Games are so fun when played correctly.

She’ll be my fake anything as long as I use her family’s roses for all of my events.

Done. Valentine’s will never be the same.

And who cares about the future? Let’s just fake it for now?

Every good girl deserves a bad boy. ~ Weston