Cider Cove Sweet Southern RomComs

Sometimes the thumbs slip… She's finally joined the dating app everyone in Cider Cove is raving about…when she accidentally sends a message about wanting to meet up for a first date to her enemy. Hillary: I've been engaged twice now without becoming a bride, and let's just say those failures have made me more career-focused than ever. But I just hit the big 3-0 last year, and I'm feeling…lonely, despite the five best friends I share an enormous house with. I've drawn the short stick this time, and I'm dealing with the general contractor about fixing our perpetually leaking roof. Joy. Not. Liam Graff is a complete beast-and our next-door neighbor-which only makes the way we sometimes gather at the upper floor windows to watch him mow his lawn shirtless a little embarrassing. For him. Not us. In order to cheer myself up, I join the dating app everyone in town can't stop talking about, and I've been chatting back and forth with Mr. Hottie from one town over. Great. No, really, it's great. I'm great. He's great. Except I've also been texting with Liam about this blasted roof, and my invite for dinner in a slinky black dress goes to him instead of Mr. Hottie… Before I can correct and explain myself, he responds with, What time should I pick you up? That very terrible text may haunt me for the rest of my life…or change it completely.

Sometimes the friend zone is breached... He's her office crush, and she's the colleague he can't stop thinking about. But with HR's no-fraternization policy breathing down their necks, Lizzie and Matt have to get creative if they want to explore what's brewing between them… Lizzie: I've been stuck in a corporate rut for years, but it's not all bad-there's Matt. Smart, funny, drop-dead gorgeous Matt, whose eyes make me forget how much I hate filling out toxic material regulation paperwork. It's not like anything can happen between us. ChemTech's relationship rules are stricter than a chemistry final, and honestly, I don't think I could survive the embarrassment of submitting a detailed dating log to HR. But then Matt invites me to dinner and a concert-as friends. Fake friends, to be exact. He claims it's the perfect loophole, and I know I should say no. Except...he's Matt. And who am I kidding? I want to go out with him more than I want a handful of my favorite chocolate-covered almonds. Caught between the thrill of potential romance and the fear of corporate consequences, I find myself at a crossroads. Matt's offer is tempting, leaving me questioning everything I know about risk and reward. Navigating dinners and concerts and movies as "fake friends" seems harmless enough, but with every glance and shared laugh, every conversation and tender moment, the heat between us turns into a bonfire and the façade of friendship crumbles. And now I have to decide: Is our connection worth risking my career?

Sometimes a person speaks before thinking.. She's just bought the flower shop and he's taken over the hardware store for his dad. Sounds peachy, right? Sure, until they both want an assistance grant from the city...and now Emma and Aaron are rivalsandneighbors. Emma: Ive always believed that flowers can brighten any occasion and make anyone's day, but nothing seems to cheer up my handsome-but-grumpy neighbor, Aaron Stansfield. Owning a flower shop next to his hardware store means our paths cross all the time, and its usually just a conversation about how hard it is to run a small business in a small Southern town. Which it is. I'm barely keeping my head above water and he has a family legacy to uphold. But it would be nice to talk about somethingbesideswork, especially after our flirt-fest at Halloween last year. People do that, right? Apparently not us, because the city of Cider Cove is holding a community project where participating small businesses have the opportunity to win a significant grant. And I need that money. Aaron wants it too, and when I see him at the information meeting, I can't control myself. I sit next to him and tell him I'm going to take the prize. After all, park rebuild + flowers = winning combo. So when he issues a darethat we submit one application and work together to ensure the winmy stupid crush kicks in and takes him up on it. So now we're workingtogetheron the community project, and I start seeing a different side of Aaronthe side thats kind, thoughtful, hardworking and frustratingly...sweet. He may be grumpy, but hes also the one whos always there when I need him. As our rivalry turns into something more, I can't help wondering:Could this very disastrous dare be the start of something wildly wonderful?