romantic comedy
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Who Killed ‘Tom Jones’? by Gale Martin
Ellie Overton is a 28-year-old rest home receptionist with a pussycat nose who also happens to be gaga for the pop singer Tom Jones. Regrettably single, she is desperate to have a white-hot love relationship, like those she’s read about in romance novels. Following an astrological hunch, she attends a Tom Jones Festival and meets an available young impersonator with more looks and personality than talent. Though he’s knocked out of the contest, he’s still in the running to become Ellie’s blue-eyed soul mate—until he’s accused of killing off the competition. It’s not unusual that the handsome police detective working the case is spending more time pursuing Ellie than collaring suspects. So, she enlists some wily and witty rest home residents to help find the real murderer. Will Ellie crack the case? Must she forfeit her best chance for lasting love to solve the crime?
Sex, Life, & Hannah Winter Season by Dorota Skrzypek
Big slut-hair, ferocious red lips, and thigh-highs, Hannah is set for her steamiest New Year’s Eve seduction ever. But instead, her boyfriend of five and a half years breaks up with her. Forced back into the revolving door of the L.A. dating scene Hannah finds herself agonizing over The Ex, trying to comfort herself in the hot young neighbor’s bed, and falling in love…again?
The inaugural volume of the Sex, Life, & Hannah chick lit series is a sexy shotgun blast of cocktails, cockteases, and revelations. Surrounded by her slightly insane friends, Hannah treads the infamous waters of heartbreak. From the pros and cons of rebound sex, to navigating manic Ex-induced mood swings, and exploring whether a leather harness and latex can really help you move on, will Hannah ever find The One? Strap in and hang on, this ride is going to hurt.
My Eternal (manga Vol. 1) by Aya Knight
Miyu Sato’s life changed the moment she was sent to live with her uncle. With no friends, and no one to talk to aside from her cat, Miyu’s heart is filled with loneliness.On a star-filled night, Miyu makes a wish—one that will change her life forever. She wakes to find her cat is no longer the furry feline she has grown to love, but an extremely cute boy—undressed—and in her bed! Do wishes really come true?
Gnome On The Range by Jennifer Zane
Jane West has everything a woman could want. A job in a small Montana town’s only adult store, two busy young boys and one dead husband. Everything except a little excitement–a little zing. But that changes one summer morning at a garage sale when her kids buy some garden gnomes.
Now someone wants those gnomes and will let nothing get in their way. Including Jane. This new excitement for Jane spells trouble for a relationship with new neighbor–and hot fireman–Ty Strickland. Can Jane and Ty handle a relationship meddling mother-in-law, crazy kids, and stay alive while trying to solve the mystery of the garden gnomes?
Dirty Tricks by Xandra James
She wanted revenge. He wanted her.
Cat was desperate, but pretending to be a ghost to stop the renovation on the neighbouring manor house was a new low even for her. All she needed to do, though, was slow down the renovation and figure out a way to make the owner pay for stealing her family home years before. Simple.
Everything was perfect until a new guy arrived on site, turning her plans for revenge upside down, and her body to a puddle of lusty mush. But when she finds out the secret he’s been keeping, will their attraction be strong enough to hold them together? Or will family ties tear them apart?
Warning: This story contains a large orange cat called Elvis, a fake ghost called Cat, a sizzling hot romance, and may cause you to crack a smile.
Bang! You’re Dead by Debra Salonen
Judy Banger is done apologizing for her name, her weight and her sexuality. She is sorry–really sorry–about Buddy Fusco–the dead guy in her bed, but she didn’t see that one coming…probably because she was too busy um…you know…to notice the exact moment he kicked the proverbial bucket. Does that make her a bad person? Or is she simply someone who’s played by the rules too damn long and is fed up with where being good has gotten her. She’s ready to be bad…or, at least, very naughty.
Parachutes and Pepto Bismol by Sadie Mills
In this action-packed dark romantic comedy we pick up the romance between chocolatier, Lucy Simkins, and skydiving instructor, Joshua Snow.
Joshua takes Lucy by surprise, sweeping her off on a romantic weekend to Paris; dancing her over the Seine. But following a chance meeting with one of Joshua’s skydiving friends, Lucy’s dream quickly turns into a nightmare. It suddenly dawns on her that he might have come with an ulterior motive; a motive that terrifies her. BASE jumping.
The Sadie Mills Freefall Trilogy is a series of fast-paced romantic comedies are set within the space of a single day. In this action-packed adventure, Sadie Mills grabs the unsuspecting reader by the handholds, drags them to the door, and pulls them out of the plane with her, giving a glimpse of a world surging with adrenaline (not to mention insanely hot men) rarely explored in literature.
Goddess & the Geek by Louise Cusack
Career academic Julian Wilde has a month booked at an island hideaway to finish his PhD, but when he arrives, sexy oyster farmer Natasha Barri grabs him thinking he’s a burglar and suddenly asthma isn’t the only thing making Julian breathless. The house has been double booked so they’re forced to share and Julian readily agrees to cook, hoping to use the voodoo potions he’s discovered online to make Tasha fall in love with him. Disaster follows debacle as Julian tries to impress her, and she tries not to kill him.
Read Goddess & the Geek to see if Julian can crack open Tasha’s hermit-shell heart and prove he’s the geek for her…
Previously print published by Harper Collins and winner of the International PRISM romantic novella award.
Virtually Perfect by Sadie Mills
‘I’ll show you my darkroom…’
It’s all the way up there with “Come up and see my etchings” and Eve knew it.
Virtually Perfect is a dark romantic comedy novel set in Brighton, England, exploring the world of internet dating. Auctioneer, Evelyn Blake, needs a plus one for her colleagues’ wedding. No one likes rocking up to those things alone. Far from a bar bunny, she lands on an internet dating website. Amongst all the bare-chested mirror shots and men-with-no-neck, one dating profile stands out.
Shutterman has been single for a while (since walking in on his fiancée and best friend in the throes in his own bed). Years of hard work, one fluke Mont Blanc shot, and photographer Benjamin Macy finds himself catapulted to fame and fortune. Handsome, young, rich and accomplished, he’s the ultimate bachelor. Far from the smackheads and shootings of the Deptford tower block where he grew up, the past he tries so hard to hide.
Bubbling with humour, crackling with tension, sizzling with sex, from Brighton Pier to Iceland to the deserts of Saudi Arabia, Sadie Mills coaxes the reader into a web of intrigue, twisting and turning in a labyrinth of deceit. Sometimes sad, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, by the time the fateful wedding day rolls around, she’ll have you on the edge of your seat.
How To Choose A Sweetheart by Nigel Bird @amouseandaman
“She came into the bookshop. That was it. That was the beginning.”
This isn’t the first romantic story to feature a balcony, nor is it likely to be the last. Even so, what takes place in ‘How To Choose A Sweetheart’ is a modern, fresh take on an old-fashioned tale.
Max is a bookseller. Since his relationship with Jazz ended, he’s struggling to find purpose in life. That all changes when a beautiful woman, Cath, walks into his shop and pins up and advert asking for a piano teacher for her daughter, Alice.
It’s almost perfect. Max takes down the details and gets in touch immediately. Within a short space of time he manages to secure the position as Alice’s piano teacher and establish that Cath’s a single mother. What could be better?
Well, he might be able to play the piano for a start.
Or his newly acquired piano teacher might not be an old, alcoholic wreck.
Or he might be completely over his ex-girlfriend.
And he might not be forced into a position where he needs to come up with a composition of his own to woo the new lady in his life.
It’s a tangled web we weave and Max seems to be sticking in the threads like a spider in a web.
A topsy-turvy romantic comedy that will warm your cockles and split your sides.
