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Story of My Life

Subgenre
romance
Edition year
2025
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Blocked romance novelist Hazel Hart impulse-buys a crumbling historic home in tiny Story Lake, PA, where her raccoon-infested fixer-upper comes with a seat on the town council. She hires grouchy contractor Cam Bishop and his equally gorgeous brothers to renovate her 'spider museum,' and stages a fake date for novel research that starts to mirror her own love story, even as the town faces bankruptcy and Cam wrestles with why he can't have a happy ending.

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  • Fake Dating: “A fake date for "research purposes" will really put her work-in-progress on track” source
  • Small Town Romance: “flees Manhattan to tiny Story Lake, PA” source
  • Grumpy x Sunshine: “all six-feet-three inches of grouchy contractor Campbell Bishop slapped a bandage on her forehead and unintentionally inspired the heck out of her” source
  • Forced Proximity: “Hire Cam and his equally gorgeous brothers to renovate her new spider museum… er… house” source
  • Strong Heroine: “Hazel Hart was a successful romance novelist until a breakup drives her straight into writer's block” source

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