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Author
Series
Boyfriend project volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Samiah Brooks never thought she would be "that" girl. But a live tweet of a horrific date just revealed the painful truth: she's been catfished by a three-timing jerk of a boyfriend. Suddenly Samiah - along with his two other "girlfriends," London and Taylor - have gone viral online. Now the three new besties are making a pact to spend the next six months investing in themselves. No men, no dating, and no worrying about their relationship status...
42) The last Romeo
Author
Publisher
Piatkus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
James is 34 and fed up. His six-year relationship with Adam has imploded, he hates his job making up celebrity gossip, and his best friend Bella has just announced she's moving to Russia. Adrift and single in loved-up London, James needs to break out of his lonely, drunken comfort zone. Encouraged by Bella, he throws himself headlong into online dating, blogging each encounter anonymously as the mysterious Romeo. After meeting a succession of hot/weird/gross...
Author
Series
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Chief Samuel Craddock's old friend Loretta Singletary has undergone a transformation, with a new hairstyle and modern clothes. He thinks nothing of it until she disappears. Only then does he find out that she has been flirting in an online dating site for small-town participants. When a woman from a nearby town who frequented the same site is murdered, Craddock becomes alarmed. Evidence shows that Loretta was lured to a meeting with a Mr. Hart, who...
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Olivia Huang Christenson is excited-slash-terrified to be taking over her grandmother's matchmaking business. But when she learns that a new dating app has taken her Pó Po's traditional Chinese zodiac approach and made it about "animal attraction," her emotions skew more toward furious-slash-outraged. Especially when L.A.'s most-eligible bachelor Bennett O'Brien is behind the app that could destroy her family's legacy... Liv knows better than to...
45) Good catch
Author
Series
Harper Landing novels volume 2
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Former ballerina Marlo Jonas has all the right moves--except when it comes to men. Her latest boyfriend? A cheater. In the wake of her breakup, her father has a novel idea for her: try dating men for who they are and not how they look. This makes it easy to ignore her hot nemesis, Seattle Times reporter Ben Wexler-Lowrey. Ben's take on romance means spending time with interesting women whose personalities might sparkle more than their looks dazzle....
46) Fling
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"At once heartfelt and hilarious, this story of a fateful-and faithful-affair reminds us that sometimes, what we're looking for might just be closer than we think . . . Tara and Colin were instant soulmates. But after six years of marriage and many failed IVF attempts, Tara feels unloved and unsexy, while Colin believes his best days are behind him. Neither Tara nor Colin is the cheating type, but they're both desperate to shake things up. It seems...
Author
Series
Bell Harbor novels volume 2
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in Bell Harbor thinks career-minded plastic surgeon Evelyn Rhoades needs a husband. Everyone, that is, except for Evelyn...sort of. Even if she did want a husband (which she doesn't...most of the time), she'd never let something as intangible as fate determine who she marries. No, if she's going to find someone to spend her life with, she'll do it scientifically: with a carefully crafted list of criteria and an Internet dating site. But...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After fleeing to Melbourne in the wake of a breakup, all Ana has to show for herself is an unfulfilling job at an overly enthusiastic tech start-up and one particularly questionable dating app experience. Then she meets Evan. Charming, kind, and financially responsible, Evan is a complete aberration from her usual type; Ana feels like she has finally awoken from a long dating nightmare. As much as she tries to let their burgeoning relationship unfold...
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jack and Maria live in a claustrophobic Manhattan apartment with their eight-year-old son, Jonah. Jack has quit booze, but his music career ended abruptly, and he isn't doing much better as a real estate agent. Maria is doing well at her corporate job, but she travels frequently. While they both love their son, they don't seem to have much else in common. When a friend tells Jack about a new extramarital dating app, Jack meets Sophia, who goes by...
50) Menafter10
Author
Publisher
Amble Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"MENAFTER10 is a geosocial online dating application for gay 'urban men looking for urban men.' Among its users is Chauncey Lee, who is always online, always looking. What exactly he's looking for is a mystery even to him, but he does his best trying to find it by dating in bedrooms across an unnamed city. Brontae Williams is just the opposite. He's lonely and desperately wants to settle down into a long-term relationship. His biggest problem is that...
51) Mr. Hook-up
Author
Series
Hooked volume 1
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Hooked. An app designed for the ideal one-night stand is the brainchild of Harvard graduate students Easton Jones and his two best friends. When Easton creates his Hooked profile, he gets a 100 percent perfect match. Who is this sure thing? Her username is Love. Their chemistry is off-the-charts explosive, and just when Easton begins falling for her, she disconnects from the app and disappears. Five years later, Hooked is now the number one dating...
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Love isn't about how much you say I love you, but how much you can prove it..." Finding love in the club wasn't working for Soraya after she dumped her ex for going to jail, so she tries to find love online. Thousands of women have found love with a simple click of the mouse, and she wants to test it out for herself. Just when Soraya thinks that spending hours online looking for a man is a complete waste of time, she finds YoungGucci90's profile....
53) Faking it
Author
Publisher
W by Wattpad Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Lifelong singleton Sophie is facing a year of events celebrating her friends and family settling down: bachelorette and engagement parties, weddings, and baby showers. And despite a string of failed dates behind her-everything from "it's not you, it's me" to only seeing each other when it suits him to total ghosting-she just can't seem to stay away from dating apps and hopes to find love just like everyone else. But when she lies about having a plus-one...
Author
Language
English
Description
Cassie Everson has a habit of escaping in the middle of notoriously bad first dates. And, after years of meeting, greeting, and running from the men who try to woo her, Cassie is just about ready to retire her hopes for a husband, and children, altogether. Cassie finally decides to throw herself into her career as Director of Girls Haven, a demanding position that is already central to her life. But fate has other plans, and Cassie's online dating...
55) Ghosts: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A smart, sexy, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about ex-boyfriends, imperfect parents, friends with kids, and a man who disappears the moment he says "I love you. Nina Dean owns her own apartment, is about to publish her second book, has a great relationship with her ex-boyfriend, and enough friends to keep her social calendar full and her hangovers plentiful. When she downloads a dating app, she does the seemingly impossible: She meets a great guy...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two sisters fight for their legacy while breaking out of their comfort zones in this new women's fiction novel by Ali Brady, author of The Beach Trap. Sisters Hannah and Libby need to make a big change. The PR agency they inherited from their grandmother-her pride and joy, her legacy-is failing, and clients are leaving left and right. They're about to lose hope until in walks Big Betty, a well-known self-help guru of the famed Ted Talk "Crushing...
57) Make up break up
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The sparkling and heartfelt romantic comedy debut from Lily Menon, Make Up Break Up.... Love, romance, second chances, fairy-tale endings...these are the things Annika Dev believes in. Her app, Make Up, has been called the 'Google Translate for failing relationships.' High efficiency break-ups, flashy start-ups, penthouses, fast cars...these are the things Hudson Craft believes in. His app, Break Up, is known as the 'Uber for break-ups.' It's wildly...
58) Missing you
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she's ignored for decades come crashing down on her. Staring back at her is her ex-fiancé Jeff, the man who shattered her heart-- and who she hasn't seen in 18 years. Kat feels a spark, wondering if this might be the moment when past tragedies recede and a new world opens...
Author
Series
Searching for volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Can a woman who sells love convince a man who believes it's a lie find a happy ever after? Kate has given up on love -- at least for herself. She is both blessed and cursed with the ability to sense (and even forge) a romantic connection between two people--a magic matchmaking gene that has been passed down in her family for generations. The first in her family cynical enough to try to turn this gift into a profitable business, Kate launches her...
Author
Series
Boyfriend project volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"When it comes to personal training, Taylor Powell kicks serious butt. Unfortunately, her bills are piling up, rent is due, and the money situation is dire. Taylor needs more than the support of her new best friends, Samiah and London. She needs a miracle. And Jamar Dixon might just be it. The oh-so-fine former pro athlete wants back into the game, and he wants Taylor to train him. There's just one catch -- no one can know what they're doing. But...
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