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When Grumpy Met Sunshine


A Romance Novel


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Sports Romance,
  • Fake Dating,
  • Grumpy/Sunshine,
  • Opposites Attract,
  • Slow Burn
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Grumpy-sunshine pairings with banter that actually sizzles
  • Fake dating where the lines blur deliciously
  • Romances featuring a retired athlete and a curvy ghostwriter

From Little Stack

Well, doesn’t the title say it all? Alfie Harding is a former soccer player with a grouchy reputation who is encouraged to write his memoirs. He has no desire to tell all or reveal his emotions, so it falls upon Mabel Willicker, a ghostwriter for hire, to do the job for him. She's perky, positive, and ready to coax every detail of Alfie's life from him, whether he likes it or not. They enjoy their bickering, but when the press mistakes them for a romantic pair, they fall into a faux relationship that the public can't get enough of. If only the scorching hot chemistry was fake too.

Publisher Description

A steamy, opposites-attract romance with undeniable chemistry between a grumpy retired footballer and his fabulous and very sunshine-y ghostwriter.

When grumpy ex-footballer Alfie Harding gets badgered into selling his memoirs, he knows he’s never going to be able to write them. He hates revealing a single thing about himself, is allergic to most emotions, and can’t imagine doing a good job of putting pen to paper.

And so in walks curvy, cheery, cute as heck ghostwriter Mabel Willicker, who knows just how to sunshine and sass her way into getting every little detail out of Alfie. They banter and bicker their way to writing his life story, both of them sure they’ll never be anything other than at odds.

But after their business arrangement is mistaken for a budding romance, the pair have to pretend to be an item for a public who’s ravenous for more of this Cinderella story. Or at least, it feels like it’s pretend—until each slow burn step in their fake relationship sparks a heat neither can control.

Now they just have to decide: is this sizzling chemistry just for show? Or something so real it might just give them their fairytale ending?

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