summer

Romance should be anything but ordinary Dream Harbor loves a celebration, and what better excuse than a warm summer’s day filled with ice cream, festivities and catching up with your friends in the shade of Main Street. And working the Sundae Funday fundraiser in the ice cream parlor with her best friend, Leo Faber, should be the perfect afternoon for Charlotte Andrews, except for the fact they shared an unexpected kiss just that morning. A kiss that could change everything… Torn between preserving their friendship and exploring their undeniable chemistry, will Charlie and Leo realize that love really can be easy if you’re willing to open your heart? The Apple Pie Ice Cream Parlor is a cozy romantic novel with a friends to lovers dynamic, small-town setting and a HEA guaranteed! Tropes: Friends to lovers Forced proximity Found family He falls first

Christina Lauren, returns with a delicious new romance between the buttoned\-up heir of a grocery chain and his free\-spirited artist ex as they fake their relationship in order to receive a massive inheritance. Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she’d signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his family built from the ground up. He is interested, however, in his one\-hundred\-million\-dollar inheritance. There’s just one catch. Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather’s will, Liam won’t see a penny until he’s been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he’s in the home stretch, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse, and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he’s afraid to introduce to his one\-percenter parents—his unpolished, not\-so\-ex\-wife. But in the presence of his family, Liam’s fears quickly shift from whether the feisty, foul\-mouthed, paint\-splattered Anna can play the part to whether the toxic world of wealth will corrupt someone as pure of heart as his surprisingly grounded and loyal wife. Liam will have to ask himself if the price tag on his flimsy cover story is worth losing true love that sprouted from a lie.