9 Contemporary Romance Authors like Ali Hazelwood

Virginia Miner is a professor dedicated to her work. In London to work on her new book about children’s folk rhymes, she finds herself more at home here than back in America. But in spite of that, she is drawn into a messy affair with an Oklahoman tourist who is the epitome of a fish out of water in this city. 

Also in London is Vinnie’s colleague Fred Turner, a handsome but broke, newly single, and depressed young man trying to finish his own research. He finds himself distracted by his own affair, this time with a beautiful but tempestuous American actress with a taste for the high life.

Fred Fairly is a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus in Cambridge. It's 1912, two years before war will change the face of Britain. In peaceful Cambridge, however, Fred is focused on lecturing in physics and finding answers to the great questions of life. Daisy Saunders has just lost her job as a trainee nurse in London and has come to seek work in Cambridge. At St Angelicus, no woman is allowed to set foot on its grounds (not even a female cat!) But she might be exactly what Fred needs.

Astrophysicist Olivia Romano loves her job but she also wants to stay close to her family in Brooklyn, which has put a dent in her academic prospects. With a snot-nosed professor determined to undermine her work, she finds herself turning to Nicholas DeSantis for help. He ran away from his family and Italian American neighborhood to make it big in Silicon Valley when he was 18. 

A former hacker turned computer genius, he's exactly who Livie needs to help her with her latest project. When Livie’s research is sabotaged, Nick takes a huge risk to get her the proof she needs to salvage her career. Soon, their professional relationship evolves into something far more personal.

Rosie Graham has just quit her job to focus on her secret career as a romance author, only to find herself struck down with a hardcore case of writer's block. When the ceiling of her apartment crumbles, she moves into her best friend Lina's house while she's out of town. But Rosie doesn’t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her Spanish cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking online. 

Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find somewhere else to live. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He’ll take her on a series of dates to spark her inspiration and get the juices flowing. Rosie's up for it. They've got six weeks of fun until Lucas leaves America, but that might not be enough for them to fulfill all of their dreams.

After losing her job and her fiancé, Natalie Vos is feeling a little lost, but it's time to get back to her normal life after a few months of wine and sorrow. She just needs her trust fund to finance her new business venture. Unfortunately, the terms require she marry before she can have the money. She's done with love, but she needs the cash, so she makes a proposition with August Cates, a local vineyard owner who is hilariously bad at his job. 

His tasting room is empty, his wine is disgusting, and he's at risk of losing his business. He bought it to help fulfil his late best friend's legacy and isn't ready to give up. Marrying Natalie for the money could fix all his problems. They just need to fake it for a few weeks, then get on with their lives...

Russ Callaghan and Aurora Roberts, students at Maple Hills University, first cross paths at a party where a drinking game ended in a wild one-night stand. Now, they're both working as counselors at a summer camp, so they have an entire season to get to know one another better. 

But is now the right time for that? Russ took on this job to get away from everything that Maple Hills represents, including his father's gambling addiction. Aurora wanted some peace and quiet. Plus, there's a strict “no staff fraternizing” rule at the camp. They should avoid one another (and stay out of one another's bunks). Right?

Olive is perennially cursed. She's unlucky in love, in her career, and in life in general. Her identical twin sister Ami, on the other hand, is probably the luckiest person in the world. She landed the perfect man and is about to have an amazing wedding (funded through winning a series of internet contests.) Olive, on bridesmaid duties, is forced spend the day with her sworn enemy, Ethan, who just happens to be the best man.

But when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning from eating bad shellfish, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. And now there’s an all-expenses-paid honeymoon in Hawaii up for grabs. Olive and Ethan are happy to put aside their disdain for one another to get a free vacation. Things go haywire at the exclusive resort when Olive runs into her future boss and blurts out that she's on her honeymoon. She and Ethan now have to pretend to be loving newlyweds. How much more unlucky can she get? Well, maybe this vacation can change things up for her and Ethan...

As a data specialist, Stella Lane knows everything there is to know about math. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases, a job that has made her very rich. But she's not so good at predicting human behavior in her everyday life. Living on the autism spectrum means she feels ill-equipped for romance. French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. 

The logical thing to do, she decides, is to hire an escort to help her practice on all things love-related. Michael Phan is the man to help her. He agrees to teach Stella how to kiss, how to love, and how to be an expert in relationships. He's a great teacher too, but Stella soon realizes that she wants so much more from this relationship than business.

Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman hate each other. They're mortal enemies and have no problem letting everyone know their feelings. Sadly, they have to work at the same company, which means they spend a lot of time passive-aggressively trying to come up on top against one another. Now, they're fighting again, but this time it's for the same promotion. 

Lucy refuses to back down when their latest game could cost her her dream job. They'll do anything to win, but this newest battle has started to reveal something unexpected: What if they don't actually hate one another? Or is this just another game?