Books like 32 candles by Ernessa Carter

Don Tillman, a genetics professor with Asperger’s, designs a scientific survey to find a wife, only to meet Rosie Jarman, a drinker and late arriver who challenges his controlled worldview and leads him to discover that love can’t be measured.

Executive assistants Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman battle over a promotion, turning office rivalry into a witty, high‑stakes game of love and humor within Bexley‑Gamin Publishing.

Amid writer's block and a looming deadline, a skeptical romance novelist and a disenchanted literary author trade their craft: she must write a happy ending, he a Great American Novel, as they race to finish before summer ends.

Poppy, a free‑spirited New Yorker, and Alex, a quiet book‑lover from their hometown, have shared summer vacations for a decade until a fateful trip tore them apart. Now, desperate to reclaim their friendship, she invites him for one last getaway.

Emma Hastings, a theater sister, falls deeply in love with the handsome Dutch surgeon Justin Teylingen, but her feelings remain unrequited.

Josh and Hazel have a decade‑long friendship that keeps them within arm’s reach—each undermining the other’s romantic life with a series of disastrous blind dates, while secretly falling in and out of love through nightly encounters.

A young opera singer from a modest Colorado town leaves her hometown in search of artistic fulfillment amid the cultural vibrancy of Chicago, navigating the challenges of coming of age and cultural identity.

When an elevator encounter turns into an unexpected fake date, a high‑powered groomsman and a nurse’s aide must decide whether a night of fun is enough to bridge the miles between a pediatric surgeon in Los Angeles and a Berkeley chief of staff.

A celebrated London singer loses her voice and must rebuild her life in the Swiss Alps, confronting love, betrayal, and a new partnership that could change her destiny.

In war‑torn Louisiana, Amanda Trent discovers a dark secret at her cousin Amelia’s plantation, where the enigmatic widower Jason Monteigne hides a haunting truth about Amelia’s death.

Love doesn't wait to be invited in... Ainsley Faraday specializes in the management of sleek, urban hotels, and is reluctant to accept her employer's latest challenge to take over a mom-and-pop property in Santa Fe. Even though she has no desire to be surrounded by lonely mountain ranges and coyote skulls, she can't resist a challenge that might put her within reach of a corner office at headquarters. Rock star Greer Davis's protective bubble of stardom bursts after a night of wanton partying results in a public disaster of epic proportions. Unprepared for the scathing turn of events, Greer heads for the hills- literally. She assumes a new identity and returns to her roots in Northern New Mexico just as her latest album debuts at number one on the charts. When Ainsley and Greer meet on a flight to New Mexico, love is the last thing on either of their minds, but tall mountain vistas, big blue skies, and hot, hot green chile all combine to create a rush of endorphins begging for release. —Back cover

Day after day Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter--the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise--and tell of the atrocities they've suffered, or that they've invented, or heard from someone else.The reader lives inside the nameless interpreter's head, with the narratives combining throughout.

Kendra Michelle Thomas dreams of stardom but faces the hardships of foster care, a stagnant job, and a stagnant relationship. Determined to turn her talent into a career, she seizes a demo, lands gigs, and a recording contract, only to confront a setback that tests her resolve.

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