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A divorced woman looking for independence finds unexpected love with her much-younger neighbor.
Anyone But You by Jennifer Crusie released on Jan 1, 2006 is available now for purchase.

A panicked PhD student kisses a grumpy professor and accidentally starts a fake relationship with him.
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Christina Lauren · Unhoneymooners #1
Sworn enemies forced to fake a honeymoon in Hawaii — what could possibly go wrong?
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Helen Fielding · Bridget Jones #1
A chaotic, self-deprecating singleton navigates her disastrous love life between a cad and a seemingly stuffy lawyer.
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He asked her to dinner to win a bet. She knows happily-ever-after is a fairy tale. Fate disagrees.
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Jennifer Crusie · Dempseys #1
A free-spirited filmmaker rolls into Temptation, Ohio — and straight into the arms of the town's straight-laced mayor.
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Elena Armas · Love Deception #1
She needs a fake boyfriend for her sister's wedding in Spain — her infuriating office nemesis volunteers.
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A free-spirited dreamer agrees to fake-fiancée her buttoned-up neighbor — until pretend starts feeling real.
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A Type-A businesswoman's manhunting checklist keeps leading her back to the one man who checks none of her boxes.
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A free-spirited commune kid and her buttoned-up ex-lawyer rekindle things — if opposites can stop clashing long enough.
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Two rival executive assistants play petty office games — until a stopped elevator changes everything.
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A driven radio producer turns her rebound fling with the laid-back DJ she's producing into a four-week addiction.
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A freshly-ditched wife, a dog named after her cheating ex, and the detective sent to protect her.
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Two rival biographers, one island, one legendary woman's story — and feelings neither of them planned for.
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Sophie Kinsella · Shopaholic #1
A shopaholic finance journalist is drowning in debt — and falling for the one man who might find out.
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Jennifer Crusie · The Organization
A cranky food writer and a hitman with no last name collide at a Southern mob wedding with $5M hidden somewhere in her h
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A bored art teacher adopts a stray dog and accidentally unravels her perfectly safe, perfectly dull life.
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Graeme Simsion · Don Tillman #1
A socially challenged genetics professor designs a scientific wife-search — then meets the woman who breaks every rule.
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A director arrives on a chaotic film set in Savannah and finds trouble — and maybe love — behind the camera.
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A starving artist must pretend to be the perfect wife to her not-so-ex-husband — a secretly rich Stanford prof.
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Lucy Score · Story Lake #1
A struggling city author impulse-buys a house in rural PA — and finds her mojo in her grumpy contractor.
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