The Improbable Meet-Cute

What makes love stick? Is it the irresistible spark when you lock eyes across a piazza in Rome? Is it feeling the earth move under your feet? (Wait—that was an actual earthquake.) In these six serendipitous short stories, bestselling authors turn improbable first encounters into hopelessly romantic happy ever afters.

The Exception to the Rule by Christina Lauren

On February 14, an accidental email to a stranger opens the door to an unexpected relationship in a captivating short story by the New York Times bestselling authors of The Unhoneymooners.

Worst Wingman Ever by Abby Jimenez

They’re falling in love, yet they’ve never met. Maybe fate can intervene in a heartwarming “what-if” short story about new beginnings by the New York Times bestselling author of Yours Truly.

Rosie and the Dreamboat by Sally Thorne

For a hopeful and hopeless romantic, it’s love at first sight—with a little twist—in a hilarious short story about finding Mr. Right by the USA Today bestselling author of The Hating Game.

Drop, Cover, and Hold on by Jasmine Guillory

It takes nothing less than a fateful natural disaster to throw two opposites together in a ground-shakingly charming short story by the New York Times bestselling author of Drunk on Love.

With Any Luck by Ashley Poston

Every person she kisses finds their true love, and it’s never her—until now, in this funny and magically romantic short story by the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics.

Royal Valentine by Sariah Wilson

Valentine’s Day becomes a Roman holiday for a princess in disguise in a dizzyingly romantic short story about making wishes come true by the USA Today bestselling author of The Chemistry of Love.

Christina Lauren is the pen name of writing partners and best
friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, whose New York Times bestselling novels include The Unhoneymooners and Love and Other Words. They have been featured in the Atlantic; Entertainment Weekly; O, the Oprah Magazine; and others.

Abby Jimenez is a Food Network winner, New York Times bestselling author, and recipient of the 2022 Minnesota Book Award for her novel Life’s Too Short. Abby founded Nadia Cakes out of her home kitchen back in 2007. The bakery has since gone on to win numerous Food Network competitions and, like her books, has amassed an international following. Abby loves a good romance, coffee, doglets, and not leaving the house.

Sally Thorne is the USA Today bestselling author of The Hating
Game. Her debut novel sold in over twenty-five countries and is
now a major motion picture. The Hating Game was named in the top twenty romance novels of 2016 by the Washington Post and was a top ten finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards romance category. Her following releases are 99 Percent Mine, Second First Impressions, and Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match. Sally lives in Canberra, Australia, with her husband in a home filled with vintage toys, too many cushions, and a haunted dollhouse.

Jasmine Guillory is the New York Times bestselling author of
The Wedding Date, the Reese’s Book Club selection The Proposal, and Drunk on Love. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Bon Appétit, and Time, and she is a frequent book contributor on the Today show.

Ashley Poston is the New York Times bestselling author of The
Seven Year Slip, The Dead Romantics, and Marvel’s Hawkeye: Bishop Takes King. She writes stories about love and friendship and happy ever afters.

Sariah Wilson is the USA Today bestselling author of The Chemistry of Love, The Paid Bridesmaid, The Seat Filler, Roommaid, Just a Boyfriend, the Royals of Monterra series, and the #Lovestruck novels. She happens to be madly, passionately in love with her soulmate and is a fervent believer in happily ever afters—which is why she writes romance. She currently lives with her family and various pets in Utah and harbors a lifelong devotion to ice cream. For more information, visit her website at www.sariahwilson.com.