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Check out this trailer for Caper Crush! So much fun!
When a workaholic lawyer meets a fun-loving music marketing executive for opposites attract, friends-to-lovers adventures, which partnership will she choose?
Workaholic lawyer Audrey Willems is not going to take any chances with her bid to become a partner at her New York law firm—especially with only six months until the decision.
Until she bumps into Jake—her new neighbor. Jake is a fun-loving music marketing executive who might just be The One.
He’s funny, caring, supportive—and able to kill water bugs in the bathroom.
But Jake will never date a woman married to her job. His father was a workaholic lawyer who never had time for family.
And she’s just got the case of a lifetime—the one she needs to win to make partner. Working 24/7 at the office may not even be enough hours to pull off a victory.
If only she had not met him now.
Audrey is determined to prove that she can juggle work and romance—even if managing court cases, candlelit dinners, and bike rides around Manhattan is a lot harder than it looks. She keeps canceling dates for yet another case crisis.
But when making partner is like a game of musical chairs and the last seat is a business-class alone, which partnership will she choose?
Featured in Book Riot Twice! Once as part of a list of 8 Epic New York-Set Romances and also 8 Romance Books to Read if you like Partner Track.
“Thank You Strawbundle Publishing, NetGalley and Author for this advanced ebook copy!
I love love loved this book! I’m a sucker for a NYC setting and it was spot on!
Audrey is a fabulous character and I loved her role as a lawyer in NYC….
Jake… Swooning over here! I found my new book character BF here! Damn I could picture him in real life. 
This story captured me from the beginning and kept me joyfully reading all the way through!
And the plot was brilliantly written. Couldn’t have asked for a better way to spend my Sunday!
An amazing book!”
- Rubie C., NetGalley
“When a workaholic lawyer meets a fun-loving music marketing executive for opposites attract, friends-to-lovers adventures, which partnership will she choose?
I thought that this was a great book. Love the heroine and the hero. They have great chemistry and complements each other. I love all their talks and scenes together. I love the insights on being a lawyer too. 🙂 NY/Manhattan is my favorite setting for novels so I enjoyed the description of the city a lot.
Thanks to the publisher for providing an arc.”
- May P., NetGalley
“In this rollercoaster narrative, the plot is deftly handled, and the conclusion is fun. Partner Pursuit has plenty of the feel-good factor that makes this romantic comedy such an enjoyable and satisfactory read.”
-Romantic Novelists’ Association New Writer’s Scheme Reader’s Report
- Finalist in the Orange County Romance Writers Book Buyer’s Best Contest 2022
- Winner of the Hudson Valley RWA’s 2020 25-4-25 Contest
- Third Place in the 2019 RWA Orange Rose Contest for Women’s Fiction with Romance as a Central Element under its former title, The Only One.
- Top 50 Amazon Best Seller in Humorous American Literature
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An opposites-attract, friends-to-lovers, slow burn, fake- dating romantic comedy.
Love is all fun and games until somebody gets hurt. Usually me. I admit it. I’m a relationship-recluse. Ironic, given that I write romantic comedies. So, I’m on a sabbatical from dating.
Which is why fake dating my best friend, Rory, is foolproof. Rory suggested it because he needed a date for work functions. And I can use our experiences as fodder for my romcom novel (and staging dollhouse soap operas for my miniatures blog). Plus, my sister doesn’t know it’s not real, and she is thrilled that I’m not walling myself off emotionally. Her words, not mine. But I do wish she would stop saying that she always suspected there was something more between me and Rory. She should realize that we’ve been friends forever so I’m immune to his appeal.
We would never work. Rory is such a romantic; he still believes in that perfect love similar to his parents’ marriage. My parents fought bitterly. So, we are better off as friends. I can’t risk losing our friendship, even if this might be my chance—before his ex-girlfriend wins him back.
Those flickers of attraction? Easily extinguished by cold- water reality—like a two-mile hike in drenching rain over sand with wheelie luggage.
But our relationship is not sticking to the plot—or is it?
Third Place in the 2020 Windy City Four Seasons Contest.
Top 50 Amazon Best Seller in Women’s Humorous Fiction and Humorous American Fiction.
Top 100 Amazon Best Seller in Romantic Comedy.
Chill with a Book Readers’ Award
A feel-good, opposites-attract, slow-burn RomCom
Somebody stole my painting! The one I need for the career-defining Vertex Art Exhibit. This upcoming art show is my chance to finally be recognized as an artist—after ten years of waitressing and being asked if I still have that “lovely painting hobby.”
I have mere weeks to find my painting or lose my artist dream forever—but it’s going to mean working with William.
William Haruki Matsumura. Good-looking, if you like the Secret Service type. You know, law-abiding, protector of women and children. That’s all fine, but I can never tell what he’s thinking. Which drives me crazy.
He insists on coming along to do “damage control.” As if “accidentally” wandering into certain areas is “breaking and entering.” I may be an emotional artist, but William shouldn’t dismiss my investigative skills yet.
William is definitely my opposite, and if there’s one takeaway from my parents’ divorce, it’s that opposites might attract, but it doesn’t last. But detecting with William is kind of fun—and fluttery. I definitely can’t trust these feelings, or can I? However this caper ends, I think this may be more than a crush.
**2023 Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite for Romantic Comedy
**Screencraft Cinematic Book Writing Competition 2023 Quarterfinalist
“This book is full of giggle worthy moments that readers will adore . . . Overall, I have loved this series and this book is no exception. This is a romantic comedy in the truest sense of the phrase that readers will adore.”
-Lemon Nail Fiend Book Blog
“Everything just worked so well from the mystery that needed solving to the sweet romance that had a wonderful slow burn feel. Caper Crush had mystery, romance, but overall, a charming and heartwarming vibe. It was lots of fun to read!”
-Rae Reads Books
“I love a slow burn romance and this definitely hits its mark. William is so reserved and I love how this fits with Miranda . . . (I love those awkward moments in a romance but so much more in a slow burn). . . This is definitely my kind of book, it’s so uplifting, funny, Miranda is just hilarious, I had tears of laughter so many times.”
-Tara’s Bookish Blog
