Showing results for "Waiting" in Romantic Comedy

Cute and fun Cordelia is history. From now on, I’m serious and focused CJ Thompson. No more snappy one-liners. No more dance-parties-for-one in restaurant booths. Anne-girl is out. Marilla Cuthbert is in. It’s time to grow up! If only it were that easy. With less than two weeks until a massive work deadline, I signed a twelve-month lease on a cottage sight-unseen because I couldn’t bear to stay in the city another day after my broken engagement. It’s all well and good until my landlord knocks on my door at two in the morning.

When I walked up to the closest guy on the quad and mauled him with my mouth to escape my overzealous ex-boyfriend, I had no idea he was the stupidly hot star of the Pierson University basketball team.

Mia's a curvy, nerdy cam girl. I’m a professional hockey player who just got traded to the New York Stars. She's also the best one-night stand I’ve ever had and I sure wouldn’t mind making her a permanent fixture in my life. But we have a problem—she betrayed a mutual friend and I just can’t get past that. Yet, every single J/P gene in my body roars to life when I find my baby brother paying to watch her on a cam-girl site.

On an ordinary, grey day a little bit of magic is about to happen on a street corner near you... At twenty-seven, Ellie Newton’s life revolves around telling other people’s stories. As a go-getting journalist for the Millrise Echo, she’s always tuned into the latest goings-on. But covering school fundraisers and shopping trolley thefts has started to lose its shine. Ellie loves her hometown, but with the serious lack of romantic prospects and a career that has stalled, she’s beginning to wonder if she should try her luck in the big city after all.

Adam McCarthy needs a few days at home on Gansett Island to soothe his battered soul. On the ferry ride home, he runs into an old family friend. Abby Callahan has come home to Gansett after two epic failures in the game of love. Before too long, Adam has appointed himself her guardian and is determined that the only sleeping around she's doing is with him. That is unless his brother Grant is willing to risk his newfound happiness to keep Adam from rebounding with his ex.

FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR GAY FICTION. The path to love doesn't always travel in a straight direction. Waiting for Something Else tells the story of James, a heterosexual man who unexpectedly falls in love, but not quite in lust, with his gay co-worker, Roger. Bald, bewildered, and Buddhist, James is struggling to adjust to life in New York City. Nine months into managing a Brooklyn gourmet restaurant, he’s still friendless and dateless, and secretly pining for Sherry —a Wiccan vixen with a narcissistic streak —but too timid to act.

A rom-com-obsessed romantic waiting for her perfect leading man learns that life doesn’t always go according to a script in this delightfully charming and funny novel. Annie Cassidy dreams of being the next Nora Ephron. She spends her days writing screenplays, rewatching Sleepless in Seattle...

'A funny, warm, wry writer' - David Nicholls, bestselling author of One Day and Sweet Sorrow 'A gentle reminder love never gives up on anyone. A funny, charming, warm-hearted story to restore your faith in life' - Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal Ned is in IKEA with his wife when...

Sparks fly as a self-sacrificing PA contends with a notoriously arrogant actor. But are they doomed from the first take or will they wrap with a happy ending? All film buff Rye Williams wanted was to be the best PA in Hollywood. Having left her fallback career, to the great consternation of her family, she's determined to take her shot behind the glamorous limelight. Until she finds out her next client is the most publicly notorious, most undeniably irresistible actor on the set of their very delayed production.

The night I met John Eaton I knew I should run. I didn’t know if it was his confidence, his deep brown eyes, or his smile - a mixture of little boy and pure devil at the same time. Just the sight of him left me unsteady. After being constantly uprooted throughout my childhood, I craved a home, and John was the antithesis of that. I needed stability, and he was the man standing on a bar, a bottle of whisky in one hand, and tequila in the other.

Up and coming rodeo star, Blue Riggins, was a cowboy champion in the making, until a tragic death left him face down in the dirt. Turning his back on the arena and his family in Texas, Blue walked away from fame and fortune to become a nomadic, risk-it-all gambler. Lindsay Parker has always been a runner. As a young girl, she ran to feel free and alive. In high school she ran for track glory. At seventeen, she slowed down long enough to be sweet talked into the tattered backseat of a Trans-Am. A decade later, she’s still running from that fateful night back in Oklahoma.

Anderson ist Kates bester Freund. Seit sie denken können, teilen die beiden einfach alles: die Leidenschaft für Musicals, die Höhen und Tiefen des Alltags und sogar ihre Schwärmereien. Doch als Matt Olsson in ihrem Theater-Kurs auftaucht, wird ihre Harmonie empfindlich gestört. Denn Matt ist nicht nur ausgesprochen talentiert und mehr als nur ein bisschen attraktiv - er ist auch haargenau Kates Typ. Die Sache hat allerdings einen gewaltigen Haken: Auch Anderson ist völlig hin und weg von Matt.

I waitress at MadDog - a biker bar - to pay my uncle’s rent at assisted living. I work my ass off but when I pour a pitcher of margaritas on a loser harassing my BFF - I’m fired. I scour want-ads until I find one that doesn’t make me want to hurl.

I’m ditching my cocktail waitress gig at MadDog’s biker bar because I’m marrying Prince Nicholas of Fredonia - he of the black hair, blue eyes, and the remarkable royal jewels. But Nick steps out seconds before our wedding and doesn’t come back. So, technically we’re gathered here today to celebrate the union of two people - but the problem is there’s only one person - me.