Alison Cochrun

The author of Kiss Her Once for Me returns with a new queer rom-com following once childhood best friends forced together to drive their former teacher across the country. A long time ago, Logan Maletis and Rosemary Hale used to be friends. They spent their childhood summers running through the woods, rebelling against their conservative small town, and dreaming of escaping. But then an incident the summer before high school turned them into bitter rivals. After graduation, they went ten years without speaking. Now in their thirties, Logan and Rosemary find they aren’t quite living the lives of adventure they imagined for themselves. Still in their small town and working as teachers at their alma mater, they’re both stuck in old patterns. Uptight Rosemary chooses security and stability over all else, working constantly, and her most stable relationship is with her label maker. Chaotic and impulsive Logan has a long list of misguided ex-lovers and an apathetic shrug she uses to protect herself from anything real. And as hard as they try to avoid each other—and their complicated past—they keep crashing into each other. Including with their cars. But when their beloved former English teacher and lifelong mentor tells them he has only a few months to live, they’re forced together once and for all to fulfill his last a cross-country road trip. Stuffed into the gayest van west of the Mississippi, the three embark on a life-changing summer trip—from Washington state to the Grand Canyon, from the Gulf Coast to coastal Maine—that will chart a new future and perhaps lead them back to one another.

A Charmed Christmas, a Charlie and Dev holiday short story.

A swoon-worthy sapphic romance following two women who are thrown together on a European adventure, from the Lambda Literary Award–winning author of the “sexy, insightful, and utterly charming” (BuzzFeed) Kiss Her Once for Me.Thirty-five-year-old Seattleite Sadie Wells needs an escape. She’s desperate to escape her monotonous routines, the family business that has consumed her entire life, and the unexpected gay panic that has her questioning everything she thought she knew about herself. So when her injured sister offers Sadie her place on a tour along Portugal’s Camino de Santiago, she decides this is the perfect chance to get away from it all. After three glasses of wine on the plane and some turbulence convince Sadie she won’t even survive the flight, she confesses all her secrets to her seatmate, Mal. The the plane doesn’t crash, and it turns out Mal is on her Camino tour. Worst of all, Sadie learns that she is on a tour specifically for queer women, and that her two-hundred-mile trek will be a journey of self-discovery, whether she wants it to be or not. Fascinated by the woman who drunkenly came out to her on the plane, Mal offers to help Sadie relive the queer adolescence she missed out on as they walk the Camino. As Sadie develops her newfound confidence, Mal grapples with a complicated loss and unexpected inheritance. But as their relationship blurs the lines between reality and practice, they both must decide if they will forever part at the end of the tour or chart a new course together. With “funny, poignant” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) prose, Alison Cochrun explores the power of letting go of your past and realizing that it’s never too late to live as your authentic self.

Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it’s no wonder then that he’s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise’s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star. Charlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming Ever After expects. He doesn’t believe in true love, and only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. In front of the cameras, he’s a stiff, anxious mess with no idea how to date twenty women on national television. Behind the scenes, he’s cold, awkward, and emotionally closed-off. As Dev fights to get Charlie to connect with the contestants on a whirlwind, worldwide tour, they begin to open up to each other, and Charlie realizes he has better chemistry with Dev than with any of his female co-stars. But even reality TV has a script, and in order to find to happily ever after, they’ll have to reconsider whose love story gets told.

Dev Deshpande siempre ha creído en los cuentos de hadas. Así que no es de extrañar que haya pasado toda su carrera creándolos en el reality show de citas Y comieron perdices. Como el productor más exitoso en la historia del programa, Dev siempre escribe la historia de amor perfecta para sus concursantes, incluso mientras su propia vida amorosa se desmorona. Pero entonces el programa incorpora al desacreditado prodigio de la tecnología Charlie Winshaw como su nueva estrella. Charlie está lejos de ser el príncipe azul romántico que Y comieron perdices espera. No cree en el amor verdadero, y solo ha accedido a estar en el programa en un intento desesperado de limpiar su imagen. Frente a las cámaras, es un desastre con ansiedad que no tiene ni idea de cómo salir con veinte mujeres en la televisión nacional. Detrás de las cámaras, es frío, complicado y está cerrado emocionalmente. Mientras Dev lucha por conseguir que Charlie conecte con las participantes en una gira mundial frenética, ambos empiezan a abrirse con el otro, y Charlie se da cuenta de que tiene mejor química con Dev que con cualquiera de sus coestrellas femeninas. Pero incluso los realities tienen un guion, y para encontrar el «felices para siempre» tendrán que reconsiderar cuál es la historia de amor que se va a contar.

Uma deliciosa comédia romântica sáfica recheada de humor, segundas chances e muito espírito natalino. Um ano atrás, tudo parecia estar indo bem para Ellie Oliver. Ela havia se mudado para Portland por causa de um emprego e conheceu uma mulher pela qual se apaixonou no decorrer de uma única noite. Um ano mais tarde, a situação é outra. Ellie não faz ideia de onde está Jack e seu emprego foi por água abaixo. É quando Andrew Kim-Prescott, dono da cafeteria que Ellie frequenta, faz uma proposta insana depois de beber um pouco demais: um casamento de conveniência que dará a ele sua parte numa herança e a ela o fim dos problemas financeiros. Para convencer os Kim-Prescott de que o relacionamento é legítimo, o “casal” decide passar as festas de fim de ano no chalé da família, e lá Andrew apresenta sua irmã a Ellie, que fica chocada ao se dar conta de que a Jacqueline de que ele tanto falava é Jack, a misteriosa mulher por quem ela se apaixonou no Natal passado. Agora, Ellie deve confrontar o que aconteceu no último ano e escolher entre a segurança de um noivado falso e o risco de um amor real.

Dev Deshpande sempre acreditou em contos de fadas. Por isso, não é de admirar que se tenha tornado produtor de um reality show em que as celebridades procuram o parceiro perfeito. No trabalho, ele demonstra o seu sexto sentido e é como um Cupido com um laço. No entanto, na sua vida privada, nunca teve sorte. Até que o programa escolhe Charlie Winshaw, um jovem promissor da tecnologia, como protagonista. Charlie está longe de ser o romântico Príncipe Encantado. Não acredita no amor verdadeiro e só aceitou participar no programa como um último esforço para recuperar a sua imagem. Em frente às câmaras, é um desastre rígido e ansioso que não faz ideia de como sair com vinte mulheres na televisão. À medida que Dev luta para que Charlie se relacione com as concorrentes numa digressão mundial, eles começam a abrir-se um com o outro e Charlie descobre que tem melhor química com Dev do que com qualquer uma das participantes. Mas até os reality shows têm um guião a seguir e, para serem felizes para sempre, terão de reconsiderar a história de amor que será contada.

Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it’s no wonder then that he’s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise’s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star. Charlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming Ever After expects. He doesn’t believe in true love, and only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. In front of the cameras, he’s a stiff, anxious mess with no idea how to date twenty women on national television. Behind the scenes, he’s cold, awkward, and emotionally closed-off. As Dev fights to get Charlie to connect with the contestants on a whirlwind, worldwide tour, they begin to open up to each other, and Charlie realizes he has better chemistry with Dev than with any of his female co-stars. But even reality TV has a script, and in order to find to happily ever after, they’ll have to reconsider whose love story gets told. In this witty and heartwarming romantic comedy—reminiscent of Red, White & Royal Blue and One to Watch—an awkward tech wunderkind on a reality dating show goes off-script when sparks fly with his producer.

A estratégia do charme é uma comédia romântica encantadora sobre amores improváveis, aparências enganosas e personagens que precisam superar traumas e preconceitos para viver um conto de fada de verdade. Dev Deshpande tem o trabalho dos sonhos: como o mais bem-sucedido produtor da história do reality show Para Todo o Sempre, ele cria contos de fada e ajuda os participantes a viverem uma história de amor perfeita. Mas seu histórico impecável fica ameaçado quando Charlie Winshaw é escolhido como protagonista da nova temporada. No papel, o empresário e prodígio da tecnologia parece o Príncipe Encantado perfeito, mas, na realidade, Charlie é o pesadelo dos produtores — ele não acredita em amor verdadeiro e só aceitou participar do programa para recuperar sua imagem profissional após alguns incidentes. Enquanto o programa os leva para destinos paradisíacos ao redor do mundo, Dev tenta ajudar Charlie a se conectar com alguma pretendente. No entanto, conforme os dois se aproximam, fica claro que a química entre eles não pode ser ignorada. Agora, precisam decidir qual história de amor contar: a que Dev fabricou diante das câmeras ou a que viveu com Charlie nos bastidores.

The author of The Charm Offensive returns with a festive romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an engagement with her landlord…only to fall for his sister.One year ago, recent Portland transplant Ellie Oliver had her dream job in animation and a Christmas Eve meet-cute with a woman at a bookstore that led her to fall in love over the course of a single night. But after a betrayal the next morning and the loss of her job soon after, she finds herself adrift, alone, and desperate for money. Finding work at a local coffee shop, she’s just getting through the days—until Andrew, the shop’s landlord, proposes a shocking, drunken plan: a marriage of convenience that will give him his recent inheritance and alleviate Ellie’s financial woes and isolation. They make a plan to spend the holidays together at his family cabin to keep up the ruse. But when Andrew introduces his new fiancée to his sister, Ellie is shocked to discover it’s Jack—the mysterious woman she fell for over the course of one magical Christmas Eve the year before. Now, Ellie must choose between the safety of a fake relationship and the risk of something real. Perfect for fans of Written in the Stars and One Day in December, Kiss Her Once for Me is the queer holiday rom-com that you’ll want to cozy up with next to the fire.