Cover of Here We Go Again

Here We Go Again

Alison Cochrun

romantic comedy(18k)

Bitter rivals and childhood best friends are forced on a cross-country road trip by their dying mentor.

Content Warnings
griefdeath of loved one

Description

The author of the “sexy, insightful, and utterly charming” (BuzzFeed) Kiss Her Once for Me returns with a new queer rom-com following once childhood best friends forced together to drive their former teacher across the country. A long time ago, Logan Maletis and Rosemary Hale used to be friends. They spent their childhood summers running through the woods, rebelling against their conservative small town, and dreaming of escaping. But then an incident the summer before high school turned them into bitter rivals. After graduation, they went ten years without speaking. Now in their thirties, Logan and Rosemary find they aren’t quite living the lives of adventure they imagined for themselves. Still in their small town and working as teachers at their alma mater, they’re both stuck in old patterns. Uptight Rosemary chooses security and stability over all else, working constantly, and her most stable relationship is with her label maker. Chaotic and impulsive Logan has a long list of misguided ex-lovers and an apathetic shrug she uses to protect herself from anything real. And as hard as they try to avoid each other—and their complicated past—they keep crashing into each other. Including with their cars. But when their beloved former English teacher and lifelong mentor tells them he has only a few months to live, they’re forced together once and for all to fulfill his last wish: a cross-country road trip. Stuffed into the gayest van west of the Mississippi, the three embark on a life-changing summer trip—from Washington state to the Grand Canyon, from the Gulf Coast to coastal Maine—that will chart a new future and perhaps lead them back to one another.

Books like this

Cover of Bachelorette Number Twelve

Bachelorette Number Twelve

Jae

romantic comedyHeart to Heart #1
(4k)

An ER nurse accidentally bids on her ice-queen doctor at a singles auction — and wins.

enemies to loversforced proximityroad trip

7 tropes in common

Cover of Blue Jean Summer: An unforgettable opposites attract, marriage of convenience cowboy romance

Blue Jean Summer: An unforgettable opposites attract, marriage of convenience cowboy romance

Maggie Gates

contemporary romance
(16)

A desperate cowboy and a beauty queen strike a deal — marry fast, fall in love slow.

childhood sweetheartsreturn to hometownsmall town

7 tropes in common

Cover of And One Last Thing ...

And One Last Thing ...

Molly Harper

romantic comedy
(8k)

After blasting her cheating husband in a mass email, a scorned woman hides at a lake cabin — and meets her grumpy next-d

forced proximityreturn to hometownsmall town

8 tropes in common

Cover of Walk This Way: a grumpy sunshine romance set on a hike in the Scottish Highlands

Walk This Way: a grumpy sunshine romance set on a hike in the Scottish Highlands

Lexi Vale

contemporary romance
(262)

A heartbroken city girl and a brooding Scotsman clash — then spark — on a Highland hiking trail.

forced proximityroad tripsmall town

8 tropes in common

Cover of Behind the Pine Curtain

Behind the Pine Curtain

Gerri Hill

contemporary romance
(3k)

Exiled at 17 for being gay, a bestselling author returns home — and to the woman she never stopped loving.

childhood sweetheartsreturn to hometownsmall town

7 tropes in common

Cover of The Long Game

The Long Game

Elena Armas

contemporary romanceGreen Oak #1
(101k)

A disgraced exec sent to coach kids in small-town NC clashes with the retired soccer star who wants her gone.

enemies to loversforced proximityreturn to hometown

9 tropes in common

Cover of Season of Love

Season of Love

Helena Greer

romantic comedyCarrigan’s Christmasland #1
(5k)

A Jewish city girl inherits a Christmas tree farm — and butts heads with its grumpy, captivating manager.

forced proximityreturn to hometownsmall town

8 tropes in common

Cover of Conventionally Yours

Conventionally Yours

Annabeth Albert

new adult romanceTrue Colors #1
(17k)

Two rival nerds share a road trip to a fan convention — and discover more than just a truce.

enemies to loversforced proximityroad trip

9 tropes in common

Cover of Funny Story

Funny Story

Emily Henry

contemporary romance
(1.3M)

Dumped by the same couple, two exes become roommates — then accidentally fall for each other.

return to hometownsmall townblack cat heroine

9 tropes in common

Cover of Picking Daisies on Sundays

Picking Daisies on Sundays

Liana Cincotti

romantic comedyPicking Daisies on Sundays #1
(81k)

She fell for her childhood best friend once — now he wants her to fake-date him at his sister's wedding.

childhood sweetheartssmall towngrumpy x sunshine

7 tropes in common

Cover of Ain't She Sweet?

Ain't She Sweet?

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

contemporary romance
(27k)

The mean girl comes home broke and humbled — but the man she wronged most hasn't forgotten a thing.

enemies to loversreturn to hometownsmall town

8 tropes in common

Cover of The Sea of Tranquility

The Sea of Tranquility

Katja Millay

new adult romance
(89k)

A girl hiding a dark secret and a boy who only knows loss find each other in the wreckage.

forced proximityreturn to hometownsmall town

8 tropes in common

Cover of Exclusively Yours (Kowalski Family, #1)

Exclusively Yours (Kowalski Family, #1)

Shannon Stacey

contemporary romanceThe Kowalskis #1
(17k)

A journalist must survive a reclusive author's chaotic family camping trip — one question at a time — to save her career

forced proximityreturn to hometownroad trip

7 tropes in common

Cover of You, with a View

You, with a View

Jessica Joyce

contemporary romance
(76k)

High school enemies reunite to retrace their grandparents' lost love story — road trip, shared bed, buried secrets.

enemies to loversforced proximityroad trip

9 tropes in common

Cover of Squeeze Play (Richmond Rogues, #1)

Squeeze Play (Richmond Rogues, #1)

Kate Angell

sports romanceRichmond Rogues #1
(6k)

Her 'rebound guy' since high school is actually her one true love — but she's too scared to change their arrangement.

childhood sweetheartsreturn to hometownsmall town

7 tropes in common

Cover of Wrangling With The Bodyguard: A Lone Star Security Romance

Wrangling With The Bodyguard: A Lone Star Security Romance

Logan Chance

contemporary romanceLone Star Security Romance
(245)

Her childhood almost-kiss is now her fake boyfriend, bodyguard, and the man fixing her fences at dawn.

childhood sweetheartsforced proximityreturn to hometown

6 tropes in common

Cover of People We Meet on Vacation

People We Meet on Vacation

Emily Henry

contemporary romance
(1.8M)

Best friends for a decade, ruined in one trip — Poppy has one last vacation to win Alex back.

road tripsmall towngrumpy x sunshine

9 tropes in common

Cover of Drop Dead

Drop Dead

Lily Chu

romantic comedy
(11k)

Two rival journalists must work together for three weeks in a dead woman's mansion — and stop hating each other.

forced proximitysmall townblack cat heroine

9 tropes in common

Cover of Kiss Her Once for Me

Kiss Her Once for Me

Alison Cochrun

romantic comedy
(59k)

She's fake-engaged to the brother — but she's falling for his sister, her one magical Christmas Eve.

forced proximitysmall townblack cat heroine

8 tropes in common

Cover of Anything You Can Do

Anything You Can Do

R.S. Grey

romantic comedy
(22k)

Two childhood rivals-turned-doctors bring their war back to their small town — and into each other's arms.

enemies to loversreturn to hometownsmall town

7 tropes in common