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Tessa Bailey · Big Shots #2
A gruff hockey dad hires a quirky marine biology student as his nanny — and falls hard.
A sports rom-com about a burly, surly, single dad who falls head-over-hockey-stick for his quirky live-in nanny... Tallulah is smart, vivacious, and studying to be a marine biologist. She’s also twenty-six and broke. So when Burgess, a battle-scarred hockey veteran and newly single dad, offers her a job as his live-in nanny, she jumps at the opportunity to get paid while living in a super fancy neighborhood and being around Lissa, his cool but introverted tween. Her tween charge isn’t the only one who could use some help fitting in, though. According to...well, everyone except Burgess, he needs to get back on the dating scene, and adventurous Tallulah is just the girl to show him how. But as boundaries are slowly crossed and Burgess finds himself pulled between his daughter, who wants her parents back together, and his insane chemistry with Tallulah, a huge rift is formed, and Tallulah does the “right” thing—breaks her own heart and walks away. Though Burgess knows it’s for the best—he’s too jaded, with too much baggage—a chance meeting, and a new push from his daughter, forces him to put everything on the line and fight to prove he learned his lessons well and is worthy of a happily ever after with Tallulah.

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The town clown and the washed-up baseball star fake date — and both forget it's supposed to be pretend.
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Sworn enemies forced to fake a honeymoon in Hawaii — what could possibly go wrong?
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Tessa Bailey · A Vine Mess #1
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Two rock royalty kids reluctantly team up to reunite their feuding mothers — and fall hard along the way.
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She needs a fake boyfriend for her sister's wedding in Spain — her infuriating office nemesis volunteers.
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A Beverly Hills party girl exiled to a small fishing town butts heads with a gruff, bearded sea captain.
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Stuck on a cable car with three very different men, one commitment-phobic sandwich delivery girl ends up with all three.
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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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Two rival executive assistants play petty office games — until a stopped elevator changes everything.
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Tessa Bailey · Same Time Next Year #1
She has a strict no-hockey-boys rule. He needs a green card. On New Year's Eve, they get married anyway.
6 tropes in common

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She stole $50k and fled to Chicago — straight into the arms of her detective neighbour who suspects everything.
8 tropes in common

Melanie Harlow · Cherry Tree Harbor #1
A grumpy single dad hires a runaway bride as his nanny — and she charms his whole town, including him.
10 tropes in common

They share a flat, a bed, and sticky notes — but Tiffy and Leon have never once met.
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She drunkenly married her grumpy billionaire boss — now they're faking it while sharing a house, a bed, and seven kids.
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A wild billionaire playgirl and a gruff retired Marine accidentally inherit a baby — and each other.
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