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Two writers, hopeful Alice Scott and Pulitzer winner Hayden Anderson, are invited to a balmy island by the reclusive heiress Margaret Ives, who will tell her life story to only one of them after a one-month trial.
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Check & Mate
Mallory Greenleaf, a former chess prodigy who quit the game after her family fell apart, agrees to one charity match and beats Nolan Sawyer, the reigning world champion, and the win drags her back into the game and into his orbit.
Romantic Comedy
Sally Milz writes sketches for a late-night comedy show and has watched ordinary male colleagues date glamorous stars, but when pop singer Noah Brewster hosts one week and they hit it off, she is sure it cannot be real.
Just for the Summer
Justin and Emma share the same curse, since everyone they date finds true love right after breaking up with them, so they agree to date each other for the summer to cancel it out, on the small Minnesota island where Emma is looking after her half-siblings.
Beach Read
January, a romance novelist who no longer believes in love, and Gus, a gloomy literary novelist and her old college rival, are summer neighbours, and they bet each other to swap genres.
The Ex Talk
Shay Goldstein, a producer at Seattle's public radio station, is told to co-host a new show about relationships with Dominic Yun, the newcomer she resents, on one condition from the station: they have to pretend to be exes.
Carrie Soto Is Back
Carrie Soto retired from tennis with twenty Grand Slam titles and a reputation as the most ruthless woman in the game, and in 1994, at thirty-seven, she comes back to defend her record against a younger player, with her father as her coach again.
The Hating Game
Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman, assistants to the two chief executives of a newly merged publishing company, share an office and loathe each other, and a promotion only one of them can win turns their war of games personal.
The Charm Offensive
Dev Deshpande, a producer on a dating reality show, is put in charge of its new star, Charlie Winshaw, a tech millionaire with anxiety who can't get through a scene.
Seven Days in June
Eva Mercy, a single mother in Brooklyn who writes a bestselling erotic vampire series, runs into Shane Hall, a reclusive literary novelist, at a New York literary event, fifteen years after the one week they spent in love as teenagers.
People We Meet on Vacation
Poppy and Alex, best friends who could not be more different, took a trip together every summer until two years ago, when something went wrong; now Poppy talks him into one more vacation to win back what they lost.
The Dead Romantics
Florence Day, who secretly ghostwrites for a famous romance novelist and has stopped believing in love, goes home to the small Southern town where her family runs a funeral home for her father's funeral, and finds the ghost of her new editor waiting for her.
Love on the Brain
Bee Königswasser, a neuroscientist, wins the chance to co-lead a NASA research project, only to learn that her partner is Levi Ward, the engineer who has seemed to despise her since graduate school.