Kate O'Keeffe

Three things I've learned this week: 1) Never fall for a client 2) Never fall for your best friend 3) And most importantly, never fall for your back-up guy ...especially if they're all the same person. Zara Huntington-Ross wants to get married. She's had more dating disasters than you can poke a long-stemmed red rose at. But she needs a safety net, someone to fall back. So, she agrees to a pact with her best friend, Asher McMillan: if neither of them are married by the time she turns 35, they'll get hitched. That's five full years of searching for The One. Surely she'll meet Mr. Right by then? The problem is she doesn't know Asher quite as well as she thinks. Taking a job redecorating his bachelor pad, Zara learns he has hidden depths-depths that tug at her heartstrings. Hard. And then disaster strikes. She starts to develop feelings for him, the guy who doesn't do relationships. It's getting complicated, and Zara doesn't need complicated. But could her back-up guy be The One after all? Never Fall for the Back-Up Guy is the first book in the It's Complicated series and can easily be read as a standalone novel. It is a spin-off of the Love Manor Romantic Comedy series. Catch up with all your favorite Love Manor characters and meet some new ones in this fun, laugh-out-loud rom com with a smart and sassy British heroine and a swoon-worthy American hero.

A Laugh-out-loud Sweet Romantic Comedy

Never Fall for Your Back-Up Guy

"The perfect fun-filled escape from reality! Kate O'Keeffe at her delightful best!" - Bestselling author Whitney DineenThree friends form the No More Bad Dates Pact: stop dating the wrong guys and start dating the right ones - weirdos and jerks need not apply.Twenty-five-year-old Sophie McCarthy's career is virtually nonexistent, her family expects her to "do something important" with her life, and she's totally sick of dating the wrong guys: the self-absorbed, the arrogant, the borderline criminally insane. After she's unceremoniously dumped during the vows at her boss's wedding, she and her two equally disappointed-in-love best friends agree to help each other find decent guys to date. Together, they form the No More Bad Dates Pact: stop dating the wrong guys and start dating the right ones-weirdos and jerks need not apply.When Sophie's roommate Jason Christie-a.k.a. doctor-in-training and serial nurse-dater-joins the pact, he vows to weed out the bad ones for her. But with his rejection of every guy Sophie meets, she begins to wonder if he's got an ulterior motive. And anyway, why does she always have so much more fun with Jason than with the guys she's actually trying to date?While desperately seeking her "happy for now," could Sophie stumble into her "happily ever after?"High Tea is a spin-off of Kate O'Keeffe's bestselling Cozy Cottage Café series. Escape to New Zealand in this fun, feel-good chick lit series!Books in the High Tea series: Book 1: No More Bad DatesBook 2: No More Terrible DatesBook 3: No More Horrible Dates

A Romantic Comedy about Love, Friendship... and Tea

No More Bad Dates

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Hilarious, heart-warming, and deliciously romantic, Marrying Mr. Darcy is the perfect rom com escape." - Whitney Dineen, bestselling author of the Creek Water SeriesIs it a truth universally known that a girl must compete on reality TV to win Mr. Darcy's heart?Emma Brady is having doubts about how far she'll go to promote her new activewear line. Sure, being on a reality show could be the big break her business so desperately needs, but is putting up with a Mr. Darcy wannabe worth it?Sebastian Huntington-Ross is straight out of an Austen novel. But it's hard to focus on his chiseled jaw, broad shoulders, and wickedly sexy accent when all Emma can see is his pride, arrogance, and smug demeanor.Sparks fly when Emma realizes Sebastian has his own agenda for being on the show. Will Emma hold fast and keep the aristocratic Sebastian at arm's length? Or will she put her reservations aside when the lines between reality and "reality show" start to blur?Dating Mr. Darcy is a laugh-out-loud feel-good rom com for fans of Bridget Jones's Diary, Sophie Ranald, and Sophie Kinsella.

A Romantic Comedy

Dating Mr. Darcy

What do you do when you want to find your happily ever after, but you're stuck in a fake relationship with the last guy you'd ever want to date? Twenty-five-year-old Erin Andrews has got a problem. She works for the country's most successful rugby team but a bitter past tells her all pro sports players are self-satisfied, arrogant jerks. There's no way on this sweet Earth she'd date one. That's why she agrees to a pact with her best friends to find good guys to date, and for her that definitely does not include guys like the "Wild Boy of Rugby," Nick Zachary.So, when Nick is in desperate need of a reputation rehab, the big bosses turn to her as the nice, ordinary girl who can get his image back on track. For Erin, being that girl is the last thing she would ever want to do. That is until she realizes just how much being Nick's high profile fake girlfriend can do for her dream of becoming a fashion designer.But playing this game of make-believe begins to feel real, and Erin wonders if the "Wild Boy of Rugby" could be her happily ever after...High Tea is a spin-off of Kate O'Keeffe's bestselling Cozy Cottage Caf� series. Escape to New Zealand in this fun, feel-good chick lit series!Titles in the Cozy Cottage Caf� Series: Book 1: One Last First DateBook 2: Two Last First DatesBook 3: Three Last First DatesBook 4: Four Last First DatesBook 5: No More Bad Dates (High Tea #1)Book 6: No More Terrible Dates (High Tea #2)Book 7: No More Horrible Dates (High Tea #3)

A Romantic Comedy of Love, Friendship . . . and Tea

No More Horrible Dates (High Tea Book 3)

What do you do when you've agreed to a pact with your friends to get married, but neither you nor the guy in your sights is quite ready to fall in love? Bailey De Luca is the last of her friends to complete the Last First Date pact-to marry the next guy she dates. But lady luck must be in a bad mood, because so far, it's all come to nothing. Everywhere she looks people are in love. Everyone except her. Is she fundamentally unlovable? Or is it that she's already found-and lost-The One? Whatever the reason, one thing's for sure: Bailey never expected to be alone at thirty. When one of her friends announces her engagement with a rock that could eclipse the sun, Bailey throws herself into a new business. Starting up Cozy Cottage Catering seems like the perfect way to bury her head in the sand. But fate has other ideas, and soon Bailey is swept off her feet by the oh-so cute Ryan Jones. Ryan may seem like the perfect combination of Prince Charming meets Thor (without the hammer), but is Bailey ready to be with him? Or will the ghost of her past love prevent her from finding happiness again? Escape to New Zealand in this fun, feel-good sweet romance. Books in the Cozy Cottage Café series: Book 1: One Last First Date Book 2: Two Last First Dates Book 3: Three Last First Dates Book 4: Four Last First Dates

A Romantic Comedy of Love, Friendship and One Big Cake

Four Last First Dates

Never Fall for Your Fake Fiancé

Never Fall for Your Enemy

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "A laugh-out-loud rom com with endearing characters, hilarious situations, and a touching happily ever after." - Delancey Stewart, USA Today bestselling authorIs it a truth universally acknowledged, that a girl can humiliate herself on reality TV and still get her fairy tale ending?Emma Brady is in shock. She fell in love with Sebastian Huntington-Ross on national television, showing everyone that opposites can most definitely attract. Now, he's asked her to marry him and live happily ever after in his fancy English manor. It's a fairy tale ending.Or is it?The problem is the TV audience wanted Sebastian to marry someone else. And in choosing Emma to be his bride, Sebastian could lose everything his aristocratic family has held dear for generations. Not to mention Lady Jilly Fotherington, who goes out of her way to make Emma feel like she doesn't belong.With enough hurdles to keep an Olympian jumping, can Emma and Sebastian find a way to stay together? Or will the pressures pulling them apart cancel their trip down the aisle?Marrying Mr. Darcy is the sequel to Dating Mr. Darcy. It's a fun, feel-good rom com for fans of Bridget

Marrying Mr. Darcy

Faking It With the Grump

Falling for Another Darcy

To Paige Miller, Two Last First Dates sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.Paige is having a rough time. She's unhappy in her career and her One Last First Date ended in total disaster. Now, she has to figure out what to do professionally and personally. Life as a spinster with fifteen cats doesn't sound too bad, though.Deciding to give up on love, Paige begrudgingly befriends Josh Bentley, the friendly coffee delivery guy, while helping out at the Cozy Cottage Caf�. His T-shirts make her eyes roll, but their runs have become an important part of her day and a blessing to her waistline, because Bailey's cakes are too good to pass up.Meanwhile, her best friends offer to find Mr. Right for her, and all Paige has to do is let them. Then, the man of her dreams walks through the door. Marcus Hahn is as good-looking as he is charming, and any thoughts Paige had of being alone with those fifteen cats, fly out the window. Now, she just has to hope her friends choose him as her Last First Date.But in the end, are Two Last First Dates enough to find The One?Two Last First Dates is the sequel to the Amazon best selling feel-good rom com, One Last First Date. Take a trip to New Zealand in this fun chick lit story!

Two Last First Dates

One Last First Date

He's grumpy, boring, and thinks it's okay to wear a suit and tie to a smalltown bar full of lumberjacks. But when I kiss him? Let's just say I wasn't expecting THAT. Harper It's one thing to be dumped by the huge Hollywood star you thought you were going to marry. It's quite another to move back to the small town you're both from. As a booby prize for being shown the door by Dex Ryder, everyone is trying to set me up with their son, their nephew, or their long-lost cousin's gardener. Either that or they're throwing me pitying looks that say, "You're a big loser." I'm not going to put up with their patronizing sympathy anymore. So, when I spot new-guy-in-town Christopher Young, I set out to make him mine. Or you know, pretend to make him mine. I'm still in a horrible funk over Dex, and Christopher is an uptight grump. Not exactly my type. The fact that despite appearances, he's gorgeous and doing weird things to my blood pressure doesn't mean a thing. Really. Not. A. Thing. Christopher Hunter's Creek, population next to nothing, is the reason I work all the time. I'm solely focused on buying the town's lumber mill so I can go back to NYC and get my big promotion. This small town is a means to an end. Nothing more. That is until the prettiest girl I've ever seen superglues her lips to mine in an unexpected and very public way. She's not the kind of woman I usually go for with her boho dress and ankle boots, but that kiss... I'm disappointed when she comes up for air and tells me it's all for show. But if Harper Cole wants me to be her fake boyfriend while I'm here in town, who am I to turn her down? Being attached to a local might ingratiate me to the townsfolk and make my job that much the easier. After all, dating Harper can only be make believe. Not when my entire future is at stake. Faking It With The Grump is a grumpy-sunshine, opposites attract, fake relationship romance set in the small town of Hunter's Creek, Washington. It's the first book in the new Second Chance Café series. Each book follows a different sister's love story and can be read as a standalone novel or as part of a series.

A Sweet Small-Town Romantic Comedy

Three things I know for sure: 1) I hate Charlie Cavendish. 2) I hate Charlie Cavendish. 3) Oh, and did I mention I hate Charlie Cavendish? Rich. Over-privileged. Smug. The guy's far too good looking for his own good, and he's always got that smirk teasing at the edges of his mouth, telling me what he thinks of me. And now, my worst nightmare has come true. Charles Cavendish has moved into my building which means I can't avoid seeing him everywhere I go. He's always there, judging me, especially when I come in late at night. Hey, I can't help it if my "single American girl in London" writing gig means I've got to check out every new club in town. Charles is so tightly wound he goes to work before the birds have chirped their first good morning. He needs to loosen up. Live a little. Actually, I don't care what he does, just as long as he does it nowhere near me. Because I hate him with the heat of a thousand suns. And I always will. Only now I'm stuck in an elevator with him. On Christmas Eve. Alone. What's the worst that could happen? Never Fall for Your Enemy (especially not at Christmas) is a clean, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy with a smart and sassy American heroine and a swoon-worthy British hero. This is Kennedy Bennet's story, who has appeared in all the Love Manor Romantic Comedy series books. It's the second book in the It's Complicated series and can easily be read as a standalone novel.

Never Fall for Your Enemy (especially Not at Christmas)

For 29-year-old Brooke Mortimer a man is a non-essential survival item-more like something forgotten at the bottom of her purse. In Brooke's world work comes first, second, and last. She runs a successful self-help business and doesn't have the time for much else-least of all messy, unpredictable love. Her pursuit of success pushes her to woo corporate America. Enter tall, tanned, and toned Logan McManus. He's everything she's looking for-a big brand with an even bigger checkbook-and something she didn't see coming, something that will put her views on love to the test. But there's more to Logan than Brooke's bargained for. When their worlds collide her life is thrown into total disarray, forcing her to consider re-writing her own self-help survival guide. Is Brooke ready to risk everything and get into bed with corporate America? Escape to beautiful New Zealand in this sexy, feel-good romantic comedy.

The Heartbroker

A lost shoe. An heir to a music kingdom. A chance for a fairy tale ending.22-year-old New Yorker Gabriella Davis aspires to be pop music's next big thing. Desperate to protect her kid sister, she's got to succeed. But first, she needs to get away from her narcissistic stepmother who has her working her butt off as assistant to her band.Super-hot singer Cole Grant is a country boy at heart, so when he leaves his native Tennessee for New York, he's about as comfortable as a deer on ice. He's determined to make the most of this chance of a lifetime, but with the explosive family secret Cole needs to keep, this is one opportunity that might just blow up in his face.A taxi, a lost shoe, and a chance meeting bring Gabby and Cole together. Their attraction is instant. But with so much at stake, neither one is in the market for love. When City meets Country and fame and fortune beckon, can they open their hearts to one another? Or will the secrets they hold keep them from finding their happily ever after?Manhattan Cinderella is a sweet and sexy contemporary romance retelling of the Cinderella story for fans of Lauren Layne. This book is a little sexier than my other "chick lit" titles, such as the Cozy Cottage Café series, but with my same light-hearted, feel-good tone.

Manhattan Cinderella: A Romantic Comedy

Jessica Banks is dragged kicking and screaming from her fabulous and carefree London life back to her hometown of Wellington, New Zealand and into the arms of her uptight mother. She struggles to settle back in until she finds a way to bring her own version of London glamour to her new home. Things begin to look up when she meets Scott Wright, tennis coach, and possibly the hottest man on the planet - but is it a love match? Or is someone else the right man for Jessica? Someone she thought was out of her reach? When both her best friend suddenly disappears and her high school arch nemesis rears her perfectly coifed head, Jessica's new life begins to unravel. Even her dearest friend, Ben, can't protect her from her demons. She eventually realizes she needs to face her deepest, darkest fear - the fear she's managed to successfully drown in cocktails for the last four years. Can Jessica overcome her past and find love and happiness in unexpected places? With Wellington - the world's coolest little capital city and New Zealand's answer to Hollywood - as the backdrop, Styling Wellywood: A fashionable romantic comedy is a laugh out loud, heartwarming, entertaining romp in the world of contemporary women's chick lit romance.

A Fashionable Romantic Comedy

Styling Wellywood

I'm Scheming of a White Christmas

Melissa Baldwin

Would you switch lives with someone you just met? Sabrina Monroe is poised and ready for her future as Mrs. Todd Edward Blakely. Everything seems perfect, but on the big day, suddenly she's not so sure. Her nicely mapped out life ahead of her, she finds herself in her own movie scene as the runaway bride, climbing out of the bathroom window. All she can think is escape. Addison Bloom needs a life makeover. She's travelled the world to find love--and failed. On her way back from yet another friend's wedding, she starts to feel ill at the mere thought of seeing another veil that's not hers. Should she go back home and marry her former sweetheart, or stick it out looking for love in her new home? Sabrina and Addison are both on the run, wanting to escape to a new life. As the two strangers talk at an airport, discovering they have the same job at opposite ends of the country, a crazy idea unfolds--one which might provide the answers they've both been looking for. Is there such a thing as a One Way Ticket to a new life, or will they find they're running from themselves, not just the past?

One Way Ticket

What do you do when you're a contestant on a reality TV dating show and you find yourself falling for the presenter-not the bachelor? Phoebe Wilson is a total romantic. As in she's read Pride and Prejudice fifty-one times, her favorite movie scene is the boombox serenade in Say Anything, and she goes to sleep every night certain that one day she'll meet her prince and get her happily ever after. That's why she entered the reality TV show, Dating Mr. Darcy. Everyone knows Mr. Darcy is the most romantic hero of all time, so the guy posing as him has got to be as close to perfect as any guy can get. The only problem is it's not Mr. Darcy who's got Phoebe's pulse rising. It's his best friend, Johnathan Bentley a.k.a. Mr. Bingley, the show's presenter. Not the bachelor. Despite knowing she's breaking the rules, Phoebe begins to snatch secret moments alone with Johnathan. But when someone discovers them, things begin to get complicated. Secrets, lies, and blackmail. Will Phoebe and Johnathan's love story survive? Falling for Mr. Bingley is the first book in a spin-off series of the Love Manor Romantic Comedy series. Each book can be read as a standalone title. Originally published as A Very English Love Story in the Love in the City box set, this story has been expanded into a full-length novel with new scenes.

Kate O'Keeffe

Books

Your next favorite book is out there