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The Hating Game (2016)
7.4/10on Open Library
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Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman bring their loyalties to rival bosses into a newly merged publishing company. When both go after a single promotion, the daily sniping has something concrete behind it. Start here for a workplace rivalry that needs both people to take the other's ambition seriously.
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Pride and Prejudice (1813)
8.4/10on Open Library
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Elizabeth hears Darcy dismiss her at the first assembly, and experience gives her other reasons to think poorly of him. He underestimates both her family and her judgment. The pleasure of this classic is watching two people act on what they think they know, then reckon with the harm those assumptions have done.
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Red, White & Royal Blue (2019)
8.4/10on Open Library
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Alex Claremont-Diaz and Prince Henry's public feud leaves an expensive wedding cake on the floor and diplomats in damage-control mode. A staged friendship gives them the private time that royal and political protocol usually prevents. The romance then asks what both are willing to risk beyond their families' public images.
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The Worst Best Man (2020)
7.0/10on Open Library
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Wedding planner Lina Santos was left at the altar, with the news delivered by the groom's brother. A career opportunity puts that brother, Max, on her team. Working together forces her to test an understandable old suspicion and gives him a chance to earn her trust through actions she can see.
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The Unhoneymooners (1934)
7.8/10on Open Library
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Olive and Ethan usually do their best to avoid each other. After food poisoning lays out the wedding party, the one obstacle to an unclaimed Hawaii honeymoon is that they have to pretend they are the newlyweds. Getting along on the trip is easier than deciding whose account of their family tensions to believe back home.
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The Ex Talk (2021)
4.0/10on Open Library
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Veteran radio producer Shay and new reporter Dominic clash over how to make good radio. A struggling station gives them only one way to share a show: pretend to be exes who can advise on bad relationships. The risk of that lie gives their professional competition consequences beyond the studio.
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Beach Read (2020)
7.4/10on Open Library
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January and Gus knew each other as writers in college, and his brusque judgments still rankle when they discover they are neighbors. Each thinks the other's kind of fiction has it easier. Their agreement to switch genres gives them a way to test those assumptions, one awkward field trip at a time.
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Book Lovers (2022)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Literary agent Nora and editor Charlie have already had a disastrous business lunch before they keep running into each other in North Carolina. Their shared candor feels different once neither is across a negotiating table. This is a good pick for readers who want an initial professional grudge to give way to mutual respect.
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The Worst Guy
After a fight wrecks an exam room, surgeons Sara and Sebastian are ordered to attend eight weeks of conflict-resolution sessions. Their antagonism starts to affect more than their pride, and the sessions require them to describe what they actually want from each other. This is a prickly workplace romance with adults who have a reason to change how they fight.
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You Deserve Each Other (2020)
2.0/10on Open Library
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Naomi and Nicholas are engaged and barely speaking honestly. Neither wants to be the one who calls off the wedding and pays for it, so both start sabotaging the relationship. The story turns on discovering what each has been pretending to want, with a deliberately petty stretch before the warmth returns.
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The Spanish Love Deception (2021)
7.9/10on Open Library
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Catalina needs a date for her sister's wedding in Spain after inventing an American boyfriend. Her colleague Aaron offers, and she doubts the man who usually points out her mistakes and criticizes how she works. The wedding lets her test that opinion away from the office.
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Hold Me (2016)
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Maria and Jay are close online friends who don't know each other's real names. In person, his dismissive assumptions and her refusal to humor him make them adversaries. They've learned to trust each other's judgment online, and they need to give each other that chance face to face.
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Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (2022)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Interior designer Astrid wants a renovation that will look right on television and secure her next job. Carpenter Jordan wants the inn to keep its history and pushes back on Astrid's plans. Their opposing ideas for the same family property make the friction tangible in every room they have to renovate.
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Act Your Age, Eve Brown (2021)
7.0/10on Open Library
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Jacob refuses to hire Eve at his bed-and-breakfast. After she hits him with her car in the parking lot, she stays to help while he recovers. Their different ideas about what competence looks like give the conflict its staying power, and working together lets each watch the other get things right.
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Dating Dr. Dil (2022)
8.2/10on Open Library
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Kareena needs money to save her childhood home and believes a marriage should be for love. Prem is a television doctor who disputes that belief, and a public argument gets in the way of his plans for a health center. Their agreement helps both projects while exposing the assumptions behind that argument.
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Marriage Game (2020)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Layla's father gives her the office above his restaurant. Sam has picked the same space for his company, and neither has much reason to give it up. Sharing the office and an unwanted parade of prospective dates tests whose plans can accommodate someone else's life.
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The Trouble with Hating You (2020)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Liya leaves a dinner when she realizes it is a setup, leaving the intended date, Jay, behind. He turns up again as the lawyer brought in to help her troubled company. An adult romance with a heavier family history, it lets her distrust of matchmaking and her judgment of Jay change at different speeds.
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Twisted Hate (2022)
7.6/10on Open Library
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Josh and Jules have openly disliked each other for years, with his sister, her best friend, caught between them. They agree to keep a new relationship strictly physical, then find limits to what that rule can handle. The adult romance keeps its abrasive banter and makes family loyalty part of the stakes.
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Heated Rivalry (2019)
7.9/10on Open Library
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Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov are headline rivals who want the same recognition and hate losing to each other. Their private relationship spans years of visits that their professional schedules and public reputations make difficult to explain. The fiercest arguments are about what secrecy costs the two men differently.
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Prospects (2024)
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When Luis is traded to the Beaverton Beavers, Gene gets a former teammate and current rival back in his life. They can't turn a reliable double play until they recover some trust. The baseball gives this romance a public way to show their relationship changing, while the question of who risks pursuing a bigger career keeps it personal.
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Cleat Cute (2023)
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Grace is an established soccer captain frustrated by injuries. Rookie Phoebe has the ambition and space on the field Grace worries she could lose. With a national-team opportunity on the horizon, they have to learn when competition helps teammates and when it makes a person too guarded to ask for help.
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