When adjunct professor Mickey takes a bartending gig to make ends meet (despite knowing nothing about bartending), gorgeous, grumpy bar owner and widower, Diego, might be the perfect man to teach the teacher.
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Grumpy/Sunshine Romance
Grumpy/sunshine is one of the most popular tropes in romance fiction. What does it mean? Two people with opposite personalities - one more optimistic and upbeat, the other more of a pessimistic grump - meet and find love despite their differences.
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- An unapologetically grumpy recluse, Maggie joins an online gaming guild where she forms a connection with Otter, an optimist, but when they take their relationship into real life, things do not go as planned.
- Catalina is desperate for a fake boyfriend to bring to her sister's wedding. Aaron, her co-worker that she cannot stand, offers to do it. She will have to either put up with his attitude or admit to her family that she lied.
- When grumpy ex-footballer Alfie gets badgered into selling his memoirs, he hires cheery ghostwriter Mabel, who knows just how to sunshine her way into getting every detail out of Alfie.
- When his life is taken over by a purple-haired tornado of a woman named Eve Brown, B&B owner Jacob Wayne tries to fight his attraction to this sunny, chaotic woman who is his natural-born enemy.
- Delilah finds herself back in her hometown of Bright Falls, and she isn’t happy about it. Until she meets Claire, a bridesmaid at her stepsister's meeting, and things start to look like they may be turning around.
- Aurora knows starting her whole life over won't be easy, but a small town in the mountains might be the perfect remedy for a broken heart. Checking out her landlord across the driveway just might cure it, too.
- A high stakes wager pits an aspiring entrepreneur against a ruthless CEO in this sexy romantic comedy. When the office battle becomes a battle of the heart, Sam and Layla have to decide if this is love or just a game.
- Oliver is a beloved rising soccer star, all sunshine smiles and the heart of his team. In short: he's genetically designed to get under misanthropic, miserable Gavin's aggravated skin. Coach gives them an ultimatum: put an end to their enmity or say…
- After being cut off by her wealthy step-father, a partying Hollywood "It Girl" experiences culture shock when she moves to Washington to learn some responsibility and help her sister run their late father's dive bar.
- In the small town of Willow Creek to help her sister, Emily is roped into volunteering for the local Renaissance Faire with her niece where she meets an irritating yet handsome teacher and finally finds a place to call home.
- In this STEM-filled contemporary romance, a fake relationship between two scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, and throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos.
- Once golf's fastest rising star, Wells Whitaker's career craters before his eyes, despite the ongoing support of a beautiful redhead who always cheers him on from the sidelines, who he eventually invites to be his new caddy.
- Two employees of a bumbling royal - one a human rainbow, the other tall, dark and cranky - reluctantly agree to fake a relationship after a clumsy moment leads to a questionable tabloid photo and swirling rumors.
- Taking an unorthodox apprenticeship under a forbidden warlock, Penny clashes with the surly Prussian until spell casting takes a dangerous turn, conjuring up an enemy - and a romance - they never saw coming.
- Kitty Hart, a cat-sitter known as the Kitty Whisperer literally falls face-first into her newest client, Miles Thorn, who is not a “cat person” but was entrusted to care for his mother’s haughty and mischievous Sphynx.
- In 1950s New York, a scrappy reporter takes a newspaper mogul's son under his wing. When their friendship turns into something else, they must decide how much they're willing to fight for the happy ending they deserve.
- Overworked and underpaid, Izzy thinks there must be more to this publishing life. When she overhears her boss complaining about a beastly author who is late on his manuscript, she sees an opportunity to prove her worth.
- Agreeing to a holiday escape to the country, literary agent Nora keeps running into a bookish, hardheaded, arrogant editor she knows from Manhattan, and discovers they have more in common than previously thought.
- Tired of maintaining her pop star image, Amelia gets some help from a grumpy baker when her car breaks down in his Kentucky town. He shows her the charming small-town experience, while she helps him open his heart.
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