How To Date

How To Date

(How To Date Book 1)

One trip across Europe. Two arch enemies. And seven nights with only one bed in the room in a spicy new standalone romance from Lauren Blakely!

The last person I want to be stuck with anywhere for one night, let alone seven, is the too-sexy-for-my-own-good Axel Huxley. I tried to work with the cocky grump once upon a time, but we’re like vodka and good decisions. We don’t play well together.

Only now, our publishers are sending us on a joint book tour across Europe on an old-fashioned luxury train. And thanks to a booking snafu, I have to share a sleeper car with the man who’s made a sport of infuriating me.

You guessed it–there’s only one bed.

I’m not sure I can survive the next seven days and nights with my dangerously sexy enemy and all our fiery tension.

Which explodes one night in a desperately needed hate bang.

But the bigger plot twist is this – the more time we spend together, visiting the most romantic cities in Europe by day and discovering each other at night, the more I’m forced to face our past.

To let go of the hurt.

To see the man he’s become.

And when I do, I wonder if it’s too late to write a new happy ending for us?

 

(This is Hazel and Axel’s romance. Please note: this book was previously titled My So-Called S-e-x Life! The story remains the same under the new title My So-Called Love Life)

Grumpy/sunshine, only one bed, enemies to lovers, rivals to lovers, vacation romance, the one who got away

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(How To Date Book 2)


Dating lessons from my football-playing best friend? Sign me up!

 

So I’m throwing myself a breakup party, a glittery fete where I envision I’ll lift a glass and celebrate being free and single again.

What I actually do: Drink too much champagne and blurt out to my best guy friend that I’d really like to get back on the horse.

But what I truly don’t expect is Carter’s answer – he volunteers as tribute.

With his sinful brown eyes and too-good-to-be-true body it’d be no hardship for me to say yes, though I certainly don’t want him to feel obligated to, um, service me, just because my failed, loveless marriage was a s-e-x desert.

But since the charming and confident pro football star owes five public dates to his dating app sponsor, we make a deal to help each other out.

Pretty soon, our public how to date lessons turn into, ahem, very private ones. And I’m a star student, graduating quickly from flirty banter and lingering looks to toe-curling, sheet-grabbing, mind-blowing hours of physical education.

The problem? Turns out learning to date again feels a lot like the real thing. Can our friendship withstand all these late-night bedroom sessions?

Especially since I’m suddenly longing for my best friend and there’s nothing fake about my feelings…

This is Rachel and Carter’s romance. Tropes: Friends to lovers, sports romance, football romance, lessons in dating, he falls first

Tropes: Friends to lovers, sports romance, football romance, lessons in dating, he falls first

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(How To Date Book 3)

A three-month marriage of convenience to save my business? What could go wrong?

To keep my struggling chocolate shop, I have to pretend I’m engaged to the sexy single dad and tattooed bartender I work with.

So what if Gage is protective, bossy and looks at me like he wants me? I can resist him.

Except, there’s that little matter of fake kisses to sell our romance to the town. Swoony gestures. Possessive words like mine.

But since it’s a bad idea to bang your business partner, I don’t give in. Well, there was that one time in the supply closet, but I swear it won’t happen again.

Good news is our shop becomes the toast of the town, with lines out the door and us as the it couple running it.

But bad news comes when my vindictive corporate rival threatens to expose us as frauds.

And my fake fiancé makes the biggest gesture of all to protect me – he marries me for real to prove this isn’t fake.

A marriage of convenience with an expiration date at the end of the year…as long as I don’t fall for my husband.

 

 

Tropes: This is Elodie and Gage’s romance. Tropes include: single dad, fake engagement, marriage of convenience, my wife, found family, workplace romance, spicy rom com, he falls first.

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While this story is a spicy romantic comedy, the characters do deal with some heavier subject matter from time to time. That includes: mentions of alcoholism/addiction/recovery as it relates to family members of the FMC/MMC (not with MMC/FMC) and its effect on family, mention of postpartum depression (not FMC), parental death (FMC), and death of spouse (MMC).

(How To Date Book 4)

I’ve spent the better part of eight years resisting my best friend’s little sister. What’s one more week? The hardest week ever when it includes a proposition to be her dating coach.

Eight years ago I fell into a secret summer fling with the bright, big-hearted Juliet before our lives went in different directions.

Now, I’m the grumpy to her sunshine on a popular dating podcast we host, and when a wealthy fan gives us a charming coastal cottage as the biggest thank you ever, we head to the town where I grew up to give it a makeover.

And find the house has only one bed.

Located under a mirrored ceiling.

To make matters even harder, the woman I’ve been pining for tells me she wants to try to find the one and would I please be her dating coach for the week?

Like hell I’ll let her date other men. I’ll coach her on three dates with me.

But the second I take her out, I don’t feel like her teacher. I feel like she’s mine, especially when the first night ends with us tangled up together in that bed.

Each night we grow closer, but this dating experiment forces me to face my greatest fear – whether a man like me is worthy of her love.

Even though I’m already head over heels for her.

 

Tropes: Brother’s best friend, one who got away, frenemies to lovers, second chance, grumpy/sunshine, small town romance!

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Loss of a parent in the past is referenced in the story

The last thing I expected when I walked into the restaurant to interview chefs for an upcoming event was to run into him.

Gabriel Mathias.

The man I spent the most magical three days and three nights with in Barcelona once upon a time, in the kind of whirlwind romance they write songs and movies about.

We were supposed to see each other again. But he broke it off with barely a word.

Now he’s back in my life, as beautiful as heartbreak, more fiery than a night of seduction, asking me for another chance.

The more he romances me across Manhattan, the more I start to believe a love like this can work out the second time around. But can I trust someone who’s hurt me once before?

Previously released as The Only One, this novella now titled Another Chance With You, about Gabriel and Penny, has been significantly revised and reimagined.

Tropes include: second chance, reunited first love, and it’s always been you

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