Kathy Strobos

Is This for Real?

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?

Partner Pursuit

Scavenger Hunt for Hearts

A feel-good, opposites-attract, slow-burn romantic comedySomebody 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.

A Feel-Good, Opposites-attract, Slow-burn Romantic Comedy

Caper Crush

Tall, dark, and handsome. That’s what I think the first time I see Rupert Evans in the library. But then I find out he is the developer who just sent my community garden a cease and desist letter because he plans to raze the garden and construct some towering monstrosity there. The only one who is going to cease and desist is him. That community garden is my found family. But then he asks me out at book club night. Suspicious, right? I’m attractive, but I’m not the type hot bachelors are lining up around the block to ask out. Let’s be real. I’m still in the brunch date spot with my next-door neighbor after a year of my pursuing him. Rupert is trying to butter me up and lead me down the garden path so I’ll concede. Never. He has no idea what we’re planning to do to stop him. Our little community group may look like a bunch of frail roses, but we’ve got thorns. As long as I weed out these pesky feelings for him, I know we can win. But will I lose my heart? Search: enemies-to-lovers, New York romantic comedy, closed-door, librarian romance,

A feel-good, enemies-to lovers, closed-door romantic comedy

My Book Boyfriend

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 fool-proof. Rory suggested it because he needed a date for work functions. And I can use our experiences as fodder for my romcom novel. 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?

A feel-good, enemies-to-lovers, closed-door romantic comedyTall, dark, and handsome. That's what I think the first time I see Rupert Evans in the library. But then I find out he is the developer who just sent my community garden a cease and desist letter because he plans to raze the garden and construct some towering monstrosity there.The only one who is going to cease and desist is him. That community garden is my found family.But then he asks me out at book club night.Suspicious, right?I'm attractive, but I'm not the type hot bachelors are lining up around the block to ask out. Let's be real. I'm still in the brunch date spot with my next-door neighbor after a year of my pursuing him.Rupert is trying to butter me up and lead me down the garden path so I'll concede. Never. He has no idea what we're planning to do to stop him. Our little community group may look like a bunch of frail roses, but we've got thorns. As long as I weed out these pesky feelings for him, I know we can win.

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