Böcker av Liz Alden

Chris Rächer: brooding recluse, a member of Europe's hottest band, and...my new roommate.I've pinched too many pennies. I'm in a foreign country, desperate for a decent place to live to stay close to my daughter. Enter my hero: Chris offers me a room at his house. Turns out, he's a goth-punk musician who's just launched into super-stardom and is striving to write the band's next hit.I'm struggling to pay the bills by teaching yoga while trying to navigate living with a grumpy heartthrob. His gravelly voice and tortured-artist vibes shouldn't be so sexy, but as the temperature drops outside, things heat up inside. He may not treat his body like a temple, but he worships mine. Our lives are complete opposites, and a widowed mom like me has no place in his. This can only end in heartbreak.

I'm alone and miserable in my favorite city in the world until a flirty-and much younger-man pretends to be my fiancé.I thought that by forty-two, I'd be happily married, but somehow, I've been the woman men want to date but don't want to marry. And now, even my friends have left me alone in the city of love.Alone-except for Luc, the charming tour guide. He refuses to cancel the trip and reminds me what it's like to feel sexy and desired. He even rekindles my love for Paris by showing me a side of the city few people see.Then we run into my ex . . . with his new fiancé on his arm and a smug look on his face.When Luc holds me close and tells a little lie, their surprise is so satisfying. Maybe a little too satisfying because I wind up in bed with my fake fiancé. The hottest night of my life certainly didn't feel fake. Too bad I'm only here for the weekend.

First crush. First kiss. First nemesis.As kids, Alex Boyd and I were best friends. Until my crush sparked a kiss and our friendship went up in flames. Years of flip-flopping between avoidance and antagonizing turned into... well, us. Now, anything I can do Alex can do better. Raise money for charity? Run a marathon? Sail a regatta? Alex is there and besting me.I'm determined to keep him out of my blossoming new photography career. But thanks to our meddling mothers, Alex winds up on a safari in South Africa with me.Same trip. Same tent. Same bed.Things are about to get wild.The fifth in the Love and Wanderlust series, The Rival in South Africa is a forced proximity romance between childhood crushes who ignite into something deeper. This stand-alone contemporary romance is perfect for everyone who wants their wanderlust to continue into the happily-ever-after.This book was originally published in the Hate Me Like You Mean It anthology. There have been minor changes.