I really enjoyed this second-chance workplace romance! Lana is a journalist for an online magazine and focuses on articles about dating. She's a serial monogamist and has been jumping from one long-term relationship to another through her entire adulthood. She thought her boyfriend of 4 years was about to propose but he took them back to their first date spot to dump her instead. After drowning her sorrows for a night, she has to go into work for a mandatory meeting the next morning, only to come face-to-face with Seth, her first love. After they broke up at the end of high school, he went on to become a jet-setting journalist, covering stories all over the world. Now he's in LA, trying to secure a job with the Chronicle, who just acquired her online magazine. Seth is a serial dater, so he and Lana are pitted against one another.

This book was distressing and emotional at times but ultimately, an epic love story! This is a right person-wrong time forbidden romance but unfortunately for Iris it is much darker than that.

Carla is flying to Ireland for Anna and Keane’s wedding (the couple from Float Plan). She’s supposed to meet Keane’s brother Eamon in Dublin so they can drive together to Tralee for the wedding. They meet at a pub and lose track of time talking and within a few hours they’ve started a vacation fling. When they start to drive the next morning, Carla is shocked that Eamon drives a Land Rover Defender but has never used it to travel or explore. This kicks off a several day detour for them as they explore some spots that Eamon has always wanted to see.

Betting On the Boy Next Door is a dual POV clean rom com with some forced proximity, fake dating, amazing roommates, loving grandparents and a quirky parrot.

Chloe Liese writes the most beautifully imperfect characters that give me the opportunity to connect their vulnerabilities to my own. It makes me feel like I’m living in the story with them in a way that I rarely experience with other authors. I loved the hostile banter that starts between Jamie and Bea during their meet-disaster and I love how they still drive one another nuts as they become friends and then more. Jamie was so so so romantic with all of his surprises and consideration. And Bea was just so vibrant and open. I loved them both!

Poppy’s husband was murdered 5 years ago and left behind a Birthday List (like a bucket list but things he wanted to do for each of his birthdays). Poppy decided to tackle the list to help herself move on. One of the first things she does for the list is take a karate class where she ends up running into the cop who delivered the news of her husband’s murder.

This book. 😍 This book is living on my shelf with my all-time favorites. It honestly had everything I want in a story - emotional connection between the main characters (not just physical/lust), humor, action, suspense … I could gush on and on. I’m definitely living in my romantic suspense era, and this definitely hit the mark.

I don’t even know where to start on reviewing this duet. First off, you should know, these books are like 1700 pages combined and you HAVE to read them back to back because the first book ends on a cliffhanger. I did a combo of ebook and audiobook and I’m so glad I did because the audiobook was so helpful with all of the Irish pronunciations and accents.