Books like To Have and to Heist by Sara Desai

Alex Claremont-Diaz, the United States’ First Son, confronts diplomatic drama when he falls for the Prince of Wales, Henry. Their staged truce turns into a real romance that could reshape politics and personal identities alike.

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.

Stella Lane, a mathematician with Asperger’s, hires an escort to learn the art of love and discovers that emotion can be as logical as numbers.

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.

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.

'As she crossed the bridge to the research lab built over a bottomless gorge, inside a crystal mountain, and guarded by an alien dragon, of all things, she wondered if she was maybe out of her depth.' An irresistible offer pulls Hope Hastings back into the world of crime. One simple heist turns into a globe-trotting adventure that pits her against the most dangerous people on the planet. And if things couldn’t get any worse, she is on the verge of getting evicted! As she embarks on a mission way above her pay grade, she uncovers lost civilizations, ancient aliens, and a horrifying conspiracy to turn everyone into mutants. Armed with nothing but sheer will and teamed with equally desperate people, Hope will need her wits about her if she wants to make it out alive. Although, it might already be too late for that...