Elena Armas

Josie Moore has given the opposite sex—and love—plenty of chances. Four exactly, if you count all her failed engagements, and five if you include the absentee father who kept her existence a secret until very recently. So when her father decides to announce his retirement with a splashy magazine piece about the family, Josie realizes her romantic history is a complicated PR issue. Matthew Flanagan is in the mud, literally. Not only has he been fired from his job, but also the tires of his car are stuck in the muck after taking a wrong turn as he enters Green Oak, North Carolina. So, he grabs a duffel with his essentials and goes in search of a place to crash until he gets his life back on track. But instead, he finds his best friend’s sister, Josie, greeting him as her fiancé. What starts as a big messy misunderstanding quickly turns into an arrangement with Matthew playing a new role as doting fiancé. A fifth engagement—and a stunt, at that—makes Josie’s stomach turn, but every dilemma requires a choice between equally undesirable alternatives, and Matthew doesn’t seem to mind becoming one more number in a colorful list of grooms-that-never-were. Despite the ring on her finger, Josie knows this is only temporary, even if the rest of the small town believes that the fifth time’s the charm.

La regola non era che mentire è concesso solo se può aiutare a tirarti fuori dai guai? Per molti sì, ma non per l’imbranatissima Catalina Martín. Lei è riuscita a infilarsi in un pasticcio di proporzioni incalcolabili, e invece di uscirne sembra sprofondare sempre più giù. Per darsi la zappa sui piedi le è bastato sapere che il suo ex fidanzato, Daniel, il bastardo per cui è scappata a New York dalla minuscola città spagnola dove è cresciuta, farà da testimone di nozze all’imminente matrimonio di sua sorella… accompagnato dalla stupenda nuova fidanzata. Al telefono Catalina è riuscita soltanto a dire che anche lei si presenterà con il suo bellissimo e innamoratissimo fidanzato americano. Peccato che lui… non esista! E adesso dove lo rimedia uno con cui fare colpo su parenti e amici e non vedersi umiliata davanti a tutta la sua famiglia? Le bugie sono come le ciliegie, una tira l’altra: così Catalina ha chiesto ad Aaron Blackford di fingersi il suo fidanzato in cambio di un viaggio in Spagna di tre giorni. Ma Aaron Blackford non è il collega-avversario che in ufficio la mette sempre in difficoltà e che lei detesta amabilmente? Proprio lui! Catalina, Catalina… possibile che tu non capisca che se un uomo sexy, bello e affascinante come Aaron decide di farti un piacere non è per guadagnarsi un posto in paradiso?

Rosie Graham ha un segreto. Anzi, ne ha diversi. Ha appena lasciato un lavoro strapagato per dedicarsi a un altro tipo di carriera: desidera diventare una scrittrice di romanzi rosa. Il suo futuro però si preannuncia tutt'altro che luminoso, anche se Rosie è convinta di potercela fare. Non ha ancora detto alla sua famiglia del cambio di rotta perché troppo occupata a combattere con un terribile blocco dello scrittore e un appartamento fatiscente. Prima che il soffitto le crolli addosso, decide di occupare abusivamente l'appartamento dell'amica Lina, mentre lei è fuori città. Ma Rosie non sa che la casa è già stata prestata al cugino dell'amica, l'irresistibile Lucas, che le offre di restare. E così Rosie finisce per diventare coinquilina del ragazzo per cui ha una cotta, e che segretamente stalkera su Internet da mesi. Per di più Lucas, per aiutarla a ritrovare l'ispirazione narrativa, le propone una serie di appuntamenti romantici. Rosie non ha nulla da perdere, in fondo Lucas deve ripartire tra poco più di un mese e la sua stupida cotta online è totalmente sotto controllo. O quasi…

From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment. Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn’t told her family and now has terrible writer’s block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina’s spare key while she’s out of town. But Rosie doesn’t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking—for lack of a better word—on Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks. Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He’ll take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Rosie has nothing to lose. Her silly, online crush is totally under control—but Lucas’s time in New York has an expiration date, and six weeks may not be enough, for either her or her deadline.

A disgraced soccer exec reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children’s team in this smalltown love story in the vein of Ted Lasso and It Happened One Summer —from the New York Times bestselling author of The Spanish Love Deception. Adalyn Reyes has spent years perfecting her daily routine: wake up at dawn, drive to the Miami Flames FC offices, try her hardest to leave a mark, go home, and repeat. But her routine is disrupted when a video of her in an altercation with the team’s mascot goes viral. Rather than fire her, the team’s owner—who happens to be her father—sends Adalyn to middle-of-nowhere North Carolina, where she’s tasked with turning around the struggling local soccer team, the Green Warriors, as a way to redeem herself. Her plans crumble upon discovering that the players wear tutus to practice (impractical), keep pet goats (messy), and are terrified of Adalyn (counterproductive), and are nine-year-old kids. To make things worse, also in town is Cameron Caldani, goalkeeping prodigy whose presence is somewhat of a mystery. Cam is the perfect candidate to help Adalyn, but after one very unfortunate first encounter involving a rooster, Cam’s leg, and Adalyn’s bumper, he’s also set on running her out of town. But banishment is not an option for Adalyn. Not again. Helping this ragtag children’s team is her road to redemption, and she is playing the long game. With or without Cam’s help.

Josie Moore has given the opposite sex—and love—plenty of chances. Four exactly, if you count all her failed engagements, and five if you include the absentee father who kept her existence a secret until very recently. So when her father decides to announce his retirement with a splashy magazine piece about the family, Josie realizes her romantic history is a complicated PR issue. Matthew Flanagan is in the mud, literally. Not only has he been fired from his job, but also the tires of his car are stuck in the muck after taking a wrong turn as he enters Green Oak, North Carolina. So, he grabs a duffel with his essentials and goes in search of a place to crash until he gets his life back on track. But instead, he finds his best friend’s sister, Josie, greeting him as her fiancé. What starts as a big messy misunderstanding quickly turns into an arrangement with Matthew playing a new role as doting fiancé. A fifth engagement—and a stunt, at that—makes Josie’s stomach turn, but every dilemma requires a choice between equally undesirable alternatives, and Matthew doesn’t seem to mind becoming one more number in a colorful list of grooms-that-never-were. Despite the ring on her finger, Josie knows this is only temporary, even if the rest of the small town believes that the fifth time’s the charm.

Ακόμα και το πιο μικρό ψέμα μπορεί να πάρει την πιο περίεργη τροπή… Η Καταλίνα Μαρτίν χρειάζεται απεγνωσμένα έναν σύντροφο για Το μικρό αθώο ψέμα της για τον υποτιθέμενο Αμερικανό φίλο της έχει ξεφύγει από κάθε έλεγχο. Και όλος της ο κύκλος ανυπομονεί να τον γνωρίσει… Εκείνη έχει μόλις τέσσερις εβδομάδες για να βρει έναν πρόθυμο συνεργό στην πλεκτάνη της και να διασχίσουν μαζί τον Ατλαντικό: Νέα Υόρκη-Ισπανία δεν είναι μια σύντομη πτήση... Σαν από μηχανής θεός ο Άαρον Μπλάκφορντ –ο ψηλός, όμορφος, επικριτικός συνάδελφός της– παραδόξως προσφέρεται να βοηθήσει. Καθώς όμως είναι ο πιο ενοχλητικός και ανυπόφορος άνθρωπος στον κόσμο, θα προτιμούσε να μπορούσε να αρνηθεί την πρότασή του. Ο γάμος πλησιάζει. Η Καταλίνα είναι απελπισμένη και ο Άαρον φαίνεται η καλύτερη επιλογή. Και αυτό αρχίζει να επιβεβαιώνεται, όταν εκείνη συνειδητοποιεί πως μπορεί να μην είναι τόσο αποκρουστικός εκτός γραφείου…

Catalina Martín desperately needs a date to her sister’s wedding. Especially since her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. Now everyone she knows—including her ex and his fiancée—will be there and eager to meet him. She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her deception. New York to Spain is no short flight and her raucous family won’t be easy to fool. Enter Aaron Blackford—her tall, handsome, condescending colleague—who surprisingly offers to step in. She’d rather refuse; never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling, and insufferable man. But Catalina is desperate, and as the wedding draws nearer, Aaron looks like her best option. And she begins to realize he might not be as terrible in the real world as he is at the office.

Rosie Graham ha un segreto. Anzi, ne ha diversi. Ha appena lasciato un lavoro strapagato per dedicarsi a un altro tipo di carriera: desidera diventare una scrittrice di romanzi rosa. Il suo futuro però si preannuncia tutt’altro che luminoso, anche se Rosie è convinta di potercela fare. Non ha ancora detto alla sua famiglia del cambio di rotta perché troppo occupata a combattere con un terribile blocco dello scrittore e un appartamento fatiscente. Prima che il soffitto le crolli addosso, decide di occupare abusivamente l’appartamento dell’amica Lina, mentre lei è fuori città. Ma Rosie non sa che la casa è già stata prestata al cugino dell’amica, l’irresistibile Lucas, che le offre di restare. E così Rosie finisce per diventare coinquilina del ragazzo per cui ha una cotta, e che segretamente stalkera su Internet da mesi. Per di più Lucas, per aiutarla a ritrovare l’ispirazione narrativa, le propone una serie di appuntamenti romantici. Rosie non ha nulla da perdere, in fondo Lucas deve ripartire tra poco più di un mese e la sua stupida cotta online è totalmente sotto controllo. O quasi…