Kiss Me in Rome by Catherine Rider

Kiss Me in Rome by Catherine RiderTitle: Kiss Me in Rome
Author: Catherine Rider
Genre: , , ,
Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
Publication Date: September 30, 2019

Summary (from Goodreads):

Eat, kiss, love - amore in Rome!

Anna can't believe it: Stephen proposed to her on a plane to Rome! She has no other choice but to refuse - after all, she is only 19 and not ready to commit yet. They are actually on their way to a wedding, and in order to return the favor to the bride's family, Anna sets out in search of a specific kind of pastry that the groom's parents would like to have.

Matteo has just flunked his most important football game qualification. As he notices Anna in a bakery trying to find the “struffoli” without knowing a word of Italian, he offers to help. Together, they embark on a crazy quest across the city of love.

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About Catherine Rider

Catherine Rider is the pen name of Working Partners writers Stephanie Elliott and James Noble, who live in Brooklyn and London respectively.

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Reggie and Delilah’s Year of Falling by Elise Bryant

Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling by Elise BryantTitle: Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling
Author: Elise Bryant
Genre: , , ,
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Publication Date: January 31, 2023

Summary (from Goodreads):

Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. She goes with the flow—which is how she ends up singing in her friends’ punk band as a favor, even though she’d prefer to hide at the merch table.

Reggie is a D&D Dungeon Master and self-declared Blerd. He spends his free time leading quests and writing essays critiquing the game under a pseudonym, keeping it all under wraps from his disapproving family.

These two, who have practically nothing in common, meet for the first time on New Year’s Eve. And then again on Valentine’s Day. And then again on St. Patrick’s Day. It’s almost like the universe is pushing them together for a reason.

Delilah wishes she were more like Reggie—open about what she likes and who she is, even if it’s not cool. Except . . . it’s all a front. Reggie is just role-playing someone confident. The kind of guy who could be with a girl like Delilah.

As their holiday meetings continue, the two begin to fall for each other. But what happens once they realize they’ve each fallen for a version of the other that doesn’t really exist?

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About Elise Bryant

Elise Bryant

Elise Bryant is the author of HAPPILY EVER AFTERS and the forthcoming ONE TRUE LOVES. She was born and raised in Southern California. For many years, Elise had the joy of working as a special education teacher, and now she spends her days writing swoony love stories and eating dessert. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Long Beach.

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Carols and Chaos by Cindy Anstey

Carols and Chaos by Cindy AnsteyTitle: Carols and Chaos
Author: Cindy Anstey
Genre: , , ,
Publisher: Swoon Reads
Publication Date: October 9, 2018

Summary (from Goodreads):

A lady's maid and a valet become entangled in a yuletide counterfeiting scheme in this romantic Christmas YA adventure.

1817. The happy chaos of the Yuletide season has descended upon the country estate of Shackleford Park in full force, but lady's maid Kate Darby barely has the time to notice. Between her household duties, caring for her ailing mother, and saving up money to someday own a dress shop, her hands are quite full. Matt Harlow is also rather busy. He's performing double-duty, acting as valet for both of the Steeple brothers, two of the estate's holiday guests.

Falling in love would be a disaster for either of them. But staving off their feelings for each other becomes the least of their problems when a devious counterfeiting scheme reaches the gates of Shackleford Park, and Kate and Matt are unwittingly swept up in the intrigue.

A companion book to Suitors and Sabotage.

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About Cindy Anstey

Cindy Anstey

Cindy fought a courageous (and stubborn) battle with cancer for 10 years. She took delight in proving several doctors’ prognostications wrong, until, finally, the disease won out. Cindy will be greatly missed.

She lived on three continents, had a monkey in her yard and a scorpion under her sink, dwelt among castles and canals and enjoyed the jazz of Beale St.

Cindy loves history, mystery and... a chocolate Labrador called Chester. The Hummingbird Dagger, her first YA mystery, was released April 2019; her second, Deadly Curious, was released in 2020.

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Holiday Princess: A Princess Diaries Book by Meg Cabot

Holiday Princess: A Princess Diaries Book by Meg CabotTitle: Holiday Princess: A Princess Diaries Book
Author: Meg Cabot
Genre: , , ,
Publisher: HarperTeen
Publication Date: October 25, 2005

Summary (from Goodreads):

Every royal's must-have guide to the holidays

A princess always knows how to celebrate the holidays. There's Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, Chinese New Year, Saturnalia . . . to name just a few.

Then there's gift giving, the royal Genovian Faberge Advent calendar, hot chocolate with marshmallows--oh, and all those fabulous holiday movies. How will you celebrate this holiday season? Mia and her subjects have a few ideas.

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Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers All-American Girl and The Princess Diaries books, two of which have been made into major motion pictures by Disney. She is also the author of The Mediator series, the Airhead series, and many books for adults. She currently divides her time between Key West and New York City with her husband and multiple rescue cats.

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Last updated on May 14, 2024

The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson

The Wren Hunt by Mary WatsonTitle: The Wren Hunt
Author: Mary Watson
Genre: , , ,
Publisher: Bloomsbury YA
Publication Date: February 8, 2018

Summary (from Goodreads):

Every Christmas, Wren is chased through the woods near her isolated village by her family's enemies—the Judges—and there’s nothing that she can do to stop it. Once her people, the Augurs, controlled a powerful magic. But now that power lies with the Judges, who are set on destroying her kind for good.

In a desperate bid to save her family, Wren takes a dangerous undercover assignment—as an intern to an influential Judge named Cassa Harkness. Cassa has spent her life researching a transformative spell, which could bring the war between the factions to its absolute end. Caught in a web of deceit, Wren must decide whether or not to gamble on the spell and seal the Augurs’ fate.

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Mary Watson

Mary Watson grew up in Cape Town, South Africa where she worked as an art museum guide, library assistant, actor in children's musicals, front-of-house duty manager and university lecturer. She now lives on the west coast of Ireland with her husband and three children.

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