After being unceremoniously let go from her job, Annie is willing to do anything to stay in New York - including taking another position for which she is wildly unqualified. The problem? Her new boss, Connor, knows that Annie is only pretending to know what she's doing and charming though she may be, she's not going to be able to talk her way out of not knowing how to code.

To make matters worse, back home Annie's sister is going through a nightmare re-engagement to the worst man in Canada, which Annie is partly choosing to ignore because it's much more fun flirting with Connor, plotting ways to keep her new job, and playing matchmaker with her friends.

But the more Annie raises the stakes on her scheming, the more she risks hurting the people who matter to her most...

WINNER OF THE ROMANTIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD IN THE DEBUT CATEGORY 2026

Popular romance author Margot Bradley has a secret: she doesn't believe in Happily Ever Afters. Not for herself, not for her readers, not even for her characters. When a super-fan leaks this to the world, Margot is dropped faster than you can say 'enemies-to-lovers.'

Her sister thinks she needs a change of scene and sends Margot off to a remote Alaskan cabin on a writing retreat that could be the perfect chance to say goodbye to romcoms and write something new - maybe swap meet-cutes for murder mysteries? But then she meets the handsome owner, Forrest:

She's a city girl; he's a lumberjack - of course he is.
He's grumpy - wait, is she sunshine? Oh no.
At least there's no forced proximity.
But that snowstorm is heading straight for their cabin...

As one trope after another draws them together over long snowy nights, one thing is clear: Margot and Forrest have landed in a romance novel of their very own. But will they each be able to overcome their fears, or risk becoming another of Margot's Happily Never Afters themselves...

**Coming July 2026, pre-order the new summer romance by Victoria Lavine, Not That Kind of Proposal**

🐸 🏰 When falling for the brooding, off-limits boss means excusing his magical murder plots and enduring a sassy amphibian sidekick – all because you love a bad boy… 🏰 🐸

✨ The third book in the bestselling fantasy rom-com series from the TikTok sensation about the sunshine assistant to the grumpy evil villain and their unexpected romance… ✨

REWARD OFFERED: Apprentice to The Villain wanted for treason (light), magical property damage (alleged), and one incident involving a weaponized scone (accurate). Frequently seen with a grumpy frog (crowned, judgmental). Answers to “Evie” or “Stop that.”

Evie Sage didn’t mean to become the right-hand woman to the kingdom’s most terrifying villain. One minute, she was applying for an entry-level position that promised “light paperwork and occasional beheadings,” and the next, she was knee-deep in magical mayhem, murder plots, and an entirely inappropriate crush on her brooding, sharp-jawed, walking disaster of a boss.

Now, with a magical prophecy unraveling, assassins showing up in the break room, and a suspicious amount of frogs wearing crowns, Evie has to figure out how to survive her job without setting the kingdom on fire?or her dignity, which is hanging by a very sarcastic thread.

Being evil-adjacent was never part of the five-year plan. But then again…neither was falling for The Villain.

Readers are OBSESSED with Hannah Nicole Maehrer...

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘This book [has] my whole heart … I need more. Book 4, please, and thank you!’
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘My favourite in the series … I was genuinely on the edge of my seat … I physically don’t think I can wait until book four’
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘It truly makes the world seem just that more magical … I’m not sure I’ll ever get bored of books set in this world!’
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘WHAT a book! I picked up the first book thinking it'd be a cute and fun read... Reader... I was WRONG … volume three solidifies ATTV as genre-defying fantastical farce … an absolute treat’ – ***** Bookseller review
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'A truly delightful shenanigan-filled romantasy … I constantly found myself grinning and giggling … My favourite book of the series!’

The Assistant and the Villain series is best enjoyed in order.
Book #1 Assistant to the Villain
Book #2 Apprentice to the Villain
Book #3 Accomplice to the Villain

A single mom struggling to raise her rebellious son finds unexpected support in a kind-hearted cowboy in this spicy romance from the author of Alive and Wells.
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She's afraid she's not enough. He'll make damn sure she knows she is.

Single mom Whitney Hart is, quite simply, overwhelmed. She's struggling to raise her ten-year-old son, Jonas. Her ex-boyfriend only seems to come around and help take care of his son when he's single and hoping to get back together. With Jonas acting out more than ever, Whitney enlists the help of her sister Blair to keep an eye on Jonas over summer vacation.

Enter Colt, a fun-loving Wells Ranch cowboy who is tasked with giving Jonas work to do around Wells Ranch to keep him busy. In Colt, Jonas finds a mentor and male role model for the first time in his life. And in Jonas, Colt discovers a friendship that brings a new kind of joy into his life.

Colt and Whit slowly develop a friendship of their own through a shared concern for Jonas, and over the course of the summer, it begins to spark into something more. The attraction and chemistry between them are hard to ignore, but Whit's insecurities and hesitancy to trust men causes her to pull away.

As miscommunications give way to understanding, the two will discover that sometimes you have to first be broken before you can become whole, and that there's no one way to create a family...
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Tropes:
Single parent
Animal lovers
Alpha male
Found family
Cowboy romance
Opposites attract
Small town romance
Sworn off relationships
Emotional scars
Friends-to-lovers

From the USA Today bestselling author of Boyfriend Material and Husband Material comes the third in a charming new adult romance series. Get ready for a delectable LGBTQIA+ romcom with all the cosy charm of The Great British Bake Off!

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Audrey Lane is perfectly fine. Really. So what if she left her high-powered job as a Very Important Journalist – and her even higher-powered long-term girlfriend – to live a quiet life as a reporter for the second-biggest newspaper in Shropshire? And so what if she keeps hearing that same higher-powered long-term now-ex-girlfriend in her head night and day, constantly judging just how small Audrey's allowed her life to become?

She's fine. She's happy. She's perfectly within her groove. Do not-in-their-groove people get weekday drunk and impulsively apply for the UK's most beloved baking show?

All right, so maybe she's not completely fine, but being on Bake Expectations is opening her world again in ways she never anticipated. First through fellow contestant Doris, whose personal story of queer love during WW2 captures Audrey's heart, imagination and journalistic interest like nothing has in ages.

Then through Jennifer Hallet, the most foul-tempered (and fouler-mouthed) producer, woman, and menace Audrey has ever met. Jennifer should be off-limits, but her fire lights something unexpected inside of Audrey, making her want to burn back a million times brighter. A million times hotter. A million times more herself than she's been in a long, long time.

Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot is a heartwarming story of triumphant love, and a must-read cosy romcom that will have readers and Bake Off fans grinning from ear to ear.

Tropes
Grumpy x Sunshine
Queer Romance
Found Family
LGBTQ+

Don’t miss the rest of the Winner Bakes All series:
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake
Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble
Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot