Spring Fling: Romances That Bloom
The official start of spring is almost upon us, which means the outside world will be waking up, and everything will start to blossom … including maybe some romance?
Yes, people find love in all of the typical places—being introduced through friends, meeting in a bar, the usual. But what about finding love in the most unexpected places? There are countless books where love blooms under unusual circumstances.
In my book Betting on Him, the first book in my Wilde Love series, Faye Tandy, a cocktail waitress who doesn’t have the money to keep the lights on at home and is about to be evicted, is most definitely not looking for love, and certainly not in the form of her boss who she just met, hot mobster Alex Wilde, who approaches her with an offer she can’t refuse—a fake relationship in exchange for more cash than she’d ever imagined.
If you haven’t read Meghan Quinn’s A Not So Meet Cute, Lottie, the female main character, bumps into the billionaire male main character, Huxley, quite literally while she is trolling for a husband in Beverly Hills. And it turns out that he is in need of a fake girlfriend. It may have been her objective to find a man, but it was most definitely an unexpected outcome for all involved…
In author Gracie Ruth Mitchell’s newest rom-com fantasy book Wish You Weren’t Here, the last thing the female main character, Clementine, is expecting is to meet a man in the middle of the night when a cat accidentally summons him (the man is, after all, a genie), by disturbing the teapot in which he is living. I think we can all agree that the last place we would be looking for romance would be inside an antique teapot.
In The Suite Life by my friend Melanie Summers, Bree, the female main character, literally finds love in her own backyard, when she rents her shed to Leo, a playboy coworker who has been cut off financially by his wealthy parents and is being forced to show he can make a living on his own. Bree is a single mother, and she is not looking for love with a tenant that she can’t be sure she can trust with her heart…
Do you have books you love where romance blossoms for main characters in unexpected places? I would love to hear about them!