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Anticipation, an all-new fun and flirty opposites-attract small town romantic comedy from Rue Harlow ➱ New Release Tour

  


What do beavers and baked goods have to do with love?
Well, everything for Liliana Travis...

Anticipation, an all-new fun and flirty opposites-attract small town romantic comedy from Rue Harlow is available now!

Is love a formula or pure fate? The residents of the small college town of Mountain View will soon find out. Love is in the air or rather in the coffee in book one of the ABCs of Romance series.

What do beavers and baked goods have to do with love? Well, everything for Liliana Travis, the owner of the local coffee shop, Higher Grounds. Her day job is serving caffeine highs, but her love life is at an all-time low. A meticulous planner ever since high school, she has a checklist for her perfect man and even plans for how she wants this future romance to unfold. But her carefully laid plans are about to be upended by something, rather someone, completely unanticipated from her past.

Dominic Moore has always been the hometown celebrity of Mountain View. The former captain of the high school football team turned NFL pro is the definition of the “golden boy”. But when Dom is caught in a scandal, he returns home to Mountain View to help his recently widowed grandmother open her dream bakery… and do some soul searching.

For Lili, Dom’s return is both exciting and a total gut punch. Her high school crush is back in town, but also fresh competition for her small business. To make matters worse, the nationwide baking competition, the Upper Crust Challenge, has come to town and bets are firmly on the table. Is it rivalry or romance as buttons are pushed, banter exchanged, and sparks fly? Maybe not everything in life can be perfectly anticipated…

For fans of The Kiss Quotient and The Soulmate Equation, Anticipation is a sweet and spicy debut from Rue Harlow that is sure to be addictive.

Fall in love today!
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Keep reading for a look inside Anticipation!

Liliana Travis was dressed like a giant beaver, missing only its head, ready for her life to dramatically change.

Even though the locker room reeked even more like sour socks than usual, Lili was only smelling roses. It had been a long football season — no longer than any other season, but Lili wasn’t into football at all — and now that it was finally ending, it was time for the final act in her epic plan.

“So …” Alicia prompted her. “What’s the plan?”

“You mean the ‘over-plan,’” Runa corrected Alicia.

Lili’s two best friends had been with her during every step of this little scheme, as they had stayed by her side for everything else throughout every noteworthy occasion in high school.

“I don’t over plan,” Lili defended herself, despite knowing how futile doing so would be, especially considering the crazy amount of thought she had poured into her nutty little endeavor so far.

“Okay.” Runa shrugged. “And I bet that Outlander show is gonna be great.”

“Shut up!” Lili laughed, sick of defending that one too. “Outlander is gonna be awesome.”

Lili had made her two besties get through as much of the historical time travel romance adventure as they were willing to read, but neither of them were as enamored by the genre buster as she was.

Not that she was obsessed at all. Lili didn’t get obsessed with anything, including Dominic Moore, no matter what Alicia and Runa said. The Mountain View Beavers’ star quarterback was as handsome as he was charming, and Lili had been dying for an actual conversation, instead of the fleeting exchanges in Statistics, he forgot about five minutes after they happened.

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Ahhh the trauma of young unrequited love

Lili lived for tomorrow
No seriously,
She stood firm that if she ran the long game then tomorrow she would reach her goal. An F+Y=S sort of thing
Yet tomorrow never really arrives and her equation is usually off by a fraction - sort of how the whole beaver thing began
Me thinks she might be a little afraid

Dom is stuck in between-
in between what he thought was his dream -
in between careers -
in between taking that risk or taking a knee

This is a comical small-town second-chance romance with a few extra conflicts tossed into the mix which only add to the amusing chaos
For the most part, I had a great time and look forward to visiting again in the future

Dom and Lili's characters had just the right chemistry and tension between them. The banter. The Smexy moments.
They fit when they let their guard down
I couldn't help but root for them.

Terrific secondary characters.
Some were pretty quirky, others irritating enough that I wished Grams coffee on them for life
I did feel the story overwhelmed at times but I also think the author was building a foundation for the "town" and the future of its residence - if that makes sense
Enjoyed the dual POVs
Hoping to return in the near future ;)


About Rue Harlow
Rue Harlow is a semi- professional baked goods aficionado. When not eating carbs or writing smutty novels, you can find her kicking back with a vodka tonic, putzing in her garden, or taking her convertible, Molly the Miata, for a spin. A native Brooklynite, she now resides in the Hudson Valley with her husband and two cats, Artemis and Apollo.

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