Lily Seabrooke

To spark interest in Avery's restaurant, and to revitalize Holly's image, a fake relationship is the answer to both their problems. And the start of a pressing new problem: falling in love. Avery Lindt finally opened her dream restaurant-and there's no customers. She's staying optimistic, though: she's confident she can fake it till she makes it, roll with the punches, and find a way to save her luxury restaurant, Paramour. But it gets harder when she gets restaurant mogul and star chef Mike Wallace angry, and finds herself on the other end of a campaign to shut down Paramour. Celebrity chef Holly Mason's show is in trouble: people are bored with her routine of helping struggling restaurants. Worse, her ex-boyfriend Mike Wallace is making backdoor deals trying to steal the starring role. Luckily, Holly's agent Tay has a solution: ditch her show plans for the season, throw their lot in with luxury restaurant Paramour against Mike Wallace's racketeering operation of a restaurant partnership. The cherry on top? A fake relationship between Holly and Avery to stir up drama. It would already be a mess if Holly and Avery weren't already struggling to hold back their attraction for one another. Despite their promise not to date, the lines between acting and reality get awfully blurry sometimes. Fake It is an 80,000-word fake-dating celebrity romance between a disillusioned TV cooking star and a bright-eyed restaurant owner who's sure she can manifest a solution to her hard times if she believes hard enough. Features an agent named Tay who calls their brilliant ideas "inspir-Tay-tion," plenty of descriptions of food that made me hungry while I wrote the book, and a cute bisexual trans girl who gets to fall in love. Content warnings for open-door sex scenes that get a little bit kinky, a gross man who won't stop calling his ex-girlfriend babe, and sapphics getting in the way of their own feelings, like they always do.

Fake It

Alice doesn't want to go to this Christmas party. Pretending to be straight around all her family and the Fowler family for an entire month to prepare for a ball, for her to dance with the man they want her to marry is not in the top 100 ways to spend December. But since her family is paying her tuition, she can't risk saying no. Besides, it's only once every ten years. She just has to survive. She thinks she can handle it, until she finds out her rehearsal partner she'll be spending the month with is the same one from ten years before--and the first girl Alice ever liked. And unfortunately for her, her feelings haven't changed. The Christmas Ball is a 50k-word f/f romance with family drama, a secret romance, a childhood crush, plenty of mutual pining, and of course, they only have one bed. Content warning for open-door sex scenes, queerphobia, and a really sleazy man.

The Christmas Ball

Emmy Montford never thought she'd make it to this song contest stage, let alone run into the reigning champion Katarina Jackson-literally. And Katarina-that's Kat to everyone but the obnoxious girl who knocked her down in an elevator and thinks they can be friends now-never thought she'd have a bright-eyed sunshine girl doing her damnedest to attach to her. She doesn't do friends. All that matters is winning, and nothing is going to get in her way. But not only is this televised song contest putting Emmy on the same stage as Kat, they're paired up in everything they do, and Emmy can make friends with anyone-even the woman who's sworn off such frivolous things as fun and friendship. Even as they compete for the title of champion-or, well, at least, Kat's competing, Emmy doesn't seem too invested-Emmy might just be able to chip away Kat's walls and remind her what it's like to care about something, and Kat might just be the meaning that Emmy's been searching for. And getting shipped by their fans under #kataremmy doesn't help with their feelings. Reach the Stars is a 30k-word novella featuring pop singers in a contest, a grumpy/sunshine romance, a rollercoaster ride that Kat totally doesn't smile on, and only a little bit of angst. Content warnings for open-door sex scenes, people getting pushy with boundaries, mentions of abuse in the past, Emmy being entirely too sweet and Kat being entirely too grouchy, and hopeless lesbians trying to ignore their feelings for another while their fans are shipping them online and they're each trying to pretend they don't look at their shipping hashtag on Instagram while the other isn't looking.

Reach the Stars

When Lena Martin gets set up with Ember Grove's most boring bachelor Will Ashton, she doesn't realize the worst part will be falling for his sister Grace. Especially when she finds out Grace is the girl she's been anonymously exchanging love letters with-and who thinks her letter partner is a man. Relying on her friend Cara's hospitality for a place to live, Lena really doesn't have a choice when Cara tells her to start seeing her fiancé's brother and have a date for their wedding. Never mind the fact that Lena's been starting to realize maybe she's not as straight as she'd thought-there's no way she's telling Cara that. As usual, her way out is to grin and bear it. Grace Ashton is tired of this small town and her family's backwards attitude. After shoving her eldest brother Dan into planning his wedding with his ex and then lining up a date for her next brother Will, she knows she's next on the chopping block, and wants to do whatever it takes to drive away this Lena Martin girl who's apparently got her eyes on Will. And both of them find refuge in the same secret grotto, hidden deep in the woods, where they realize they're not the only one with this secret hiding place, and leave anonymous letters for one another-and fall headfirst in love without even knowing the other's name. And for Grace, without even knowing the anonymous letter writer she's fallen for is a woman. But as wedding planning keeps drawing Lena and the Ashtons together, can Lena and Grace resist that same spark of connection in one another they feel from their love-letter writers? The Safest Place is a 78,000-word slow burn new adult romance set in the same small-town romance setting as and after the events of The Simple Answer, but follows different characters and stands alone. It features two absolute disasters who figure out the people they want to be, a double toaster oven plotline, overbearing family trying to get Lena with Will but her falling for his sister instead, some enemies-to-lovers that's more like enemies-to-grudgingly-accepting-being-in-the-same-room-to-friends-to-enemies-to-best-friends-to-enemies-to-even-better-best-friends-to-lovers, and some very mushy falling in love anonymously via secret letters. Content warnings for open-door sex scenes, homophobic and abusive parents, mentions of past relationship abuse and of conversion therapy but it never happens I promise, Lena whacking Percy with a stick but he was asking for it, a very boring man who actually turns out to be all right, and a girl who stubbornly refuses to notice she's a lesbian.

The Safest Place

Melissa Warden is at the top of her field, CFO of a high-powered financial institution, but there's only one problem: she doesn't know why she did any of it, what she sacrifices every second of her life for. And after lying to her family pretending she has a girlfriend to keep them from worrying about her, it backfires when they invite her girlfriend to her sister's baby shower. With everything at risk of crashing down at work, she's forced to face the fact that she's thrown her whole life away for nothing more than a title.Kayla Spencer lives by a motto that matches the name of her candy store: Life is Sweet. But her faith in that mantra is put to the test when her candy store is heading towards insolvency, and when an ex-boyfriend from a life she thought she escaped shows up to try to bring her back.Grabbing a customer you barely know to pretend to be your girlfriend just to get a pushy ex off your back is a half-baked plan, but Kayla has a lot of those. Besides, what are the odds that customer you barely know is actually a disillusioned millionaire who could also use a fake girlfriend? That would be an unbelievable coincidence that would obviously never happen.Life is Sweet is a 50k-word f/f romance between a millionaire lesbian corporate executive looking for meaning in life and a disaster bisexual just trying not to crash and burn, featuring a fake relationship that turns into a real one, pushy businesspeople who won't take no for an answer, and a rabbit named Leonardo who is a total jerk, despite how cute he is.Content warning for descriptions of domestic abuse and intimate partner violence, open-door sex scenes, and the most disastrous of bisexual disasters.

Life is Sweet

Cheryl is murdered. And the afterlife is out to kill her again. When Cheryl is killed, she ends up a guardian angel, tasked with protecting humanity from the demons who feed on humanity. But the angels are on the verge of being wiped out, a traitor threatens to crush the stability of the angels' order, and their top suspect is Cheryl herself. With only three months to save a marked soul or have her own soul pass on, Cheryl has to find out how to survive in a world falling into disorder-and who she can really trust.

Archdemon

Erin's dreams didn't pan out the way she'd had in mind. An unsatisfying job, a relationship gone south, she's heading nowhere fast-until she sends one little text to an old best friend, estranged with time.But bringing Aubrey back into her life changes everything for Erin, as the last things holding her relationship together fall apart. With nothing left to lose, what's stopping her from leaving home, crossing the country and staying with Aubrey instead?In the middle of struggles with her self-image, with health and with work trying to start a new life starting from scratch, she finds herself falling into something unfamiliar-she never thought she might be a lesbian, but before long, her best friend starts to feel like maybe more than a friend.Good Composition is a 50k-word low-angst friends-to-lovers romance. Content warning for an emotionally abusive relationship, hospitalization, an eating disorder, open-door sex scenes and Britney-just Britney. Pick it up for a lighthearted, fluffy and easy read that feels like a shippy fanfiction or a teenage romantic daydream!

Lily Seabrooke

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