Romance in the Coffee Rings

Flamingos, Fake Dating, and Falling for Real  🦩 Just for the Cameras (Bay Area Players #1) by Meghan Quinn ⭐ My Rating: 5 stars x100 (no notes. none.) 🌴 Trope Check: Fake dating, grump x sunshine, forced proximity, media scandal 🦩 Chaos Level: Flamingo feathers + viral fame + tension you could slice with a spoon About this book: Graydon St. John is a brooding, don’t-look-at-me, don’t-talk-to-me NFL defensive end who would rather bench press in silence than smile for a camera. Maple Baker is a loud, sunshiney zookeeper who protects her flamingos like they’re her children. Because of a league-wide PR disaster, Graydon gets thrown into a public image makeover at the San Francisco zoo… and ends up paired with Maple for a media outreach program. They’re supposed to fake a little charm for the cameras. Instead? They fake flirt. They fake smile. They fake chemistry. Except… it’s not feeling very fake anymore. Between viral attention, family secrets, and a romance that...

A Love Story I’d Rewind Every Time  🎨 Rewind It Back (Windy City #5) by Liz Tomforde ⭐ My Rating: 5 stars (but honestly… 6 if I were allowed) ☕ Vibe: Emotional, nostalgic, second-chance perfection 📍 My first book of February & my FAVORITE in the series Hallie Hart and Rio DeLuca’s story didn’t start with a meet-cute.                                 .... It started next door. They grew up together. Childhood crushes turned into teenage love, and teenage love turned into heartbreak that neither of them ever truly moved on from. At nineteen, everything fell apart—and for six years, they stayed apart too. And the renovation project that could make or break her career?  He’s never stopped loving the girl next door. He’s just been rewinding the memories in silence… waiting for a second chance he never thought he’d get. Now Hallie is chasing her drea...