Alison Cochrun Bücher

Wo das Drehbuch aufhört, fängt die Liebe an! Dev Deshpande hat schon immer an Märchen geglaubt. Als erfolgreicher Produzent der beliebten Reality-Dating-Show ›Ever After‹ entwirft er immer die perfekte Liebesgeschichte für die Kandidaten – bis Tech-Wunderkind Charlie Winshaw zum Star der neuen Staffel ernannt wird. Dev soll ihm dabei helfen, seine Traumfrau zu finden, doch Charlie ist alles andere als ein romantischer Märchenprinz: Er ist steif, verschlossen und glaubt nicht einmal an die wahre Liebe. Als die beiden Männer sich während der Aufzeichnungen unerwartet näherkommen, stellen sie fest, dass es zwischen ihnen mehr funkt als zwischen Charlie und den zwanzig Kandidatinnen! Und das sollte doch ganz und gar nicht so sein, oder? »Cochruns entzückendes Debüt bietet all die Wohlfühlmomente einer großartigen RomCom: Das süße Kennenlernen, witziges Geplänkel, Knistern. Es geht aber auch um queere Liebe und mentale Gesundheit.«

Ellie geht einen Deal mit ihrem Vermieter Andrew ein, um Weihnachten mit seiner Familie zu verbringen und als seine Verlobte aufzutreten. Doch als sie seine Schwester Jack trifft, erkennt sie, dass sie diese vor einem Jahr in einem Buchladen kennengelernt hat. Jetzt muss Ellie zwischen der Fake-Beziehung und echten Gefühlen wählen.

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.

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 wish: 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.