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  • The Bluff by Emma St. Clair

    The Bluff by Emma St. Clair

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It's hard to be professional when you hate and are attracted to your boss in equal measure...
  • Sabtu Bersama Bapak by Adhitya Mulya

    Sabtu Bersama Bapak by Adhitya Mulya

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “Hai, Satya! Hai, Cakra!” Sang Bapak melambaikan tangan. “Ini Bapak. Iya, benar kok, ini Bapak. Bapak cuma pindah ke tempat lain. Gak sakit. Alhamdulillah, berkat doa Satya dan Cakra. … Mungkin Bapak tidak dapat duduk dan bermain di samping kalian. Tapi, Bapak tetap ingin kalian tumbuh dengan Bapak di samping kalian. Ingin tetap dapat bercerita kepada kalian...
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  • The Chronicles of Audy: 21 by Orizuka

    The Chronicles of Audy: 21 by Orizuka

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hai. Namaku Audy. Umurku masih 22 tahun. Hidupku tadinya biasa-biasa saja, sampai aku memutuskan untuk bekerja di rumah 4R. Aku sempat berhenti, tapi mereka berhasil membujukku untuk kembali setelah memberiku titel baru: "bagian dari keluarga". Di saat aku merasa semakin akrab dengan mereka, pada suatu siang, salah seorang dari mereka mengungkapkan perasaannya kepadaku...
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    drama  humor  realistic  book  comedy  contemporary  family  fiction
  • Never Fall for Your Back-Up Guy by Kate O'Keeffe

    Never Fall for Your Back-Up Guy by Kate O'Keeffe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Three things I’ve learned this week:1) Never fall for a client2) Never fall for your best friend3) And most importantly, never fall for your back-up guy…especially if they’re all the same person.Zara Huntington Ross wants to get married. She’s had more dating disasters than you can poke a long-stemmed red rose at...
  • My Kind of Perfect by Hannah Ellis

    My Kind of Perfect by Hannah Ellis

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alternate cover edition of ASIN B01G79NXGKPeople-pleaser Marie has a lot to contend with: • Her fiancé Brian is a workaholic who mysteriously snubs his family • Her best friend Grace is being demanding and unreasonable • Her wedding plans are non-existent • She’s accidentally acquired a personal trainer Despite all this, Marie manages to stay upbeat...
  • The Carrot by Virginia Gray

    The Carrot by Virginia Gray

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What if the perfect job was dangled right in front of you? The only catch: Fix an unfixable problem—oh, and it’s in the middle of nowhere. Would you leave your friends, your lover, your world? Would you sacrifice your reputation and your pride? Would you sell your very soul? Susan Wade has designed a fabulous future for herself...
  • Starfish by J.B. Heller

    Starfish by J.B. Heller

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here. He lives in the penthouse of the most luxurious complex in the city. She shares an apartment with a lobster... Hannah spends her days swimming with sharks, chilling with her pet lobster Levi and avoiding commitment like the plague...
  • You Are Loved by Jo Platt

    You Are Loved by Jo Platt

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes, life needs a rewrite… Author Grace Waterhouse has hit rock bottom. Her ex-husband has just had a baby with his new partner and her latest novel is… well, the less said the better...
  • Haute Couture by Joslyn Westbrook

    Haute Couture by Joslyn Westbrook

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Breaking News: Mr. Right Is Always Mr. Wrong... Lauren Blake, fashionista extraordinaire, has what almost every woman wants: Glamour. Fortune. Prestige. Plus a new driver who she finds terribly annoying, despite his good looks. As the creator of the popular clothing line she's worked years to build, Lauren's got no time for love...
  • Not Playing Fair by Terri Osburn

    Not Playing Fair by Terri Osburn

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The universe is not playing fair.First, my new boss says changes are coming to our library that threaten the programs I run. Then a letter arrives from my mother—whom I haven’t seen in more than twenty years—saying who knows what because I’m refusing to open it. Last but not least, the man who dumped me eight months ago is telling people that I’m trying to get him back...
  • Holly Freakin' Hughes by Kelsey Kingsley

    Holly Freakin' Hughes by Kelsey Kingsley

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "People like you don't fall in love with people like me." Meet Holly Hughes , a moderately successful teen advice columnist living in a studio apartment on the Upper East Side with her boyfriend Stephen. She has it all, but at the ripe age of thirty-one, she wants more. She wants to be married, she wants a family, and she's going to have it all with Stephen...
  • The Quirky Tale of April Hale by Cathy Octo

    The Quirky Tale of April Hale by Cathy Octo

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Tall, dark, and mysterious—Ryder Black is everything a girl wants. The catch? He’s trouble. Naturally, he’s irresistibly charming. Surprisingly, he’s impressively academic, too. But it’s his knack for getting into fights that makes him notorious...
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    drama  female-mc  humor  realistic  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction
  • Smart Girl by Rachel Hollis

    Smart Girl by Rachel Hollis

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Brilliant designer Miko Jin is a hopeless romantic. She’s spent most of her life falling in love over and over again…with the men she finds in the pages of her favorite novels.When Miko meets Liam Ashton, it’s love at first sight. At least, for her. Sure, the two of them are polar opposites, and yes, he seems to be dating someone new each week...
  • Smooches by Susan Renee

    Smooches by Susan Renee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I made one of those dream board things while hanging out with my best friends. You know, the kind that are made with pictures ripped from magazines with special notes about your life goals or biggest wishes. (Mine of course, is covered in glitter!) As a single mom, it’s hard to put my dreams and goals first, but I made my list. 1. Finally finish my degree 2. Learn how to cook new recipes. 3...
  • Crazy To Leave You by Marilyn Simon Rothstein

    Crazy To Leave You by Marilyn Simon Rothstein

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the author of Husbands and Other Sharp Objects comes a witty, bighearted novel about the happy accidents that lead to love and second chances.Forty-one years old, the last of her friends to marry, and down to a size 12, Lauren Leo is in her gown and about to tie the knot. There’s just one thing missing: the groom. With one blindsiding text, Lauren is unceremoniously dumped at the altar...
  • The Awkward Path to Getting Lucky by Summer Heacock

    The Awkward Path to Getting Lucky by Summer Heacock

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A humorous novel about a cupcake shop owner with a physical ailment that's kept her from having sex for two years, and the desperate antics that ensue as she tries to overcome it. Having sex wasn't a big priority while Kat Carmichael's successful cupcake shop was taking off...
  • Love in a Pawn Shop by Bonnie Edwards

    Love in a Pawn Shop by Bonnie Edwards

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This woman’s conning his grandmother.He’s the cop who’ll stop her.Unless he falls in love first.In this satisfying, charming romance, meet Dix, a woman who’s given the last ten years of her life to her raising her brother. In weeks he’ll go to college, and she’ll be living her own dream.Then a cop walks into her pawn shop, looking for stolen goods...
  • So Lucky by Dawn O'Porter

    So Lucky by Dawn O'Porter

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    IS ANYONE’S LIFE . . .Beth shows that women really can have it all.Ruby lives life by her own rules.And then there’s Lauren, living the dream.AS PERFECT AS IT LOOKS? Beth hasn’t had sex in a year.Ruby feels like she’s failing.Lauren’s happiness is fake news...
  • 6 1/2 Body Parts by Stephanie Bond

    6 1/2 Body Parts by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The BODY MOVERS series continues with a very special novella! Carlotta Wren has always wondered what her life would've been like if her father hadn't been charged with a white-collar crime, and if her wealthy parents hadn't fled town to avoid facing the music, leaving her to fend for herself and to raise her younger brother Wesley. And with a twist of fate, she's about to find out..
  • See Bride Run! by Charlotte Hughes

    See Bride Run! by Charlotte Hughes

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Atlanta’s billionaire heiress Annie Hartford has been under her father’s thumb her entire life. At 29, he is now forcing her to marry a man she doesn’t love in front of 600 guests. With only moments to spare, she hijacks the family limo, which breaks down in small town Pinckney, Georgia...
  • All That Mullarkey by Sue Moorcroft

    All That Mullarkey by Sue Moorcroft

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Revenge and love: it’s a thin line … The writing’s on the wall for Cleo and Gav. The bedroom wall, to be precise. And it says ‘This marriage is over.’ Wounded and furious, Cleo embarks on a night out with the girls, which turns into a glorious one night stand with… Justin, centrefold material and irrepressibly irresponsible...
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    drama  female-mc  humor  adult  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction
  • Checking Out by Nick Spalding

    Checking Out by Nick Spalding

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What do you do when the doctor says you could die at any moment? Well…after you’ve made a cup of tea, of course. Nathan James is young, successful and has the world at his feet. Unfortunately, he’s also about to die—which ruins things somewhat. And now he’s staring imminent death in the face, Nathan is having to rethink some of his life choices very hard...
  • Marrying Mr. Darcy: A romantic comedy by Kate O'Keeffe

    Marrying Mr. Darcy: A romantic comedy by Kate O'Keeffe

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Is it a truth universally acknowledged, that a girl can humiliate herself on reality TV and still get her fairy tale ending?Emma Brady is in shock. She fell in love with Sebastian Huntington-Ross on national television, showing everyone that opposites can most definitely attract. Now, he's asked her to marry him and live happily ever after in his fancy English manor. It's a fairy tale ending...
  • Stop Kiss by Diana Son

    Stop Kiss by Diana Son

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ben Brantley of the New York Times summed up the critical reaction to Diana Son's play Stop Kiss when he stated that it "generated the warmest advance word of mouth of any downtown production this season" and heralded it as a Barefoot in the Park for a new generation...
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    drama  humor  realistic  adult  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction
  • Home to Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani

    Home to Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Millions of readers around the world have fallen in love with the novels of the New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani. In" Home to Big Stone Gap," she tells her most powerful story yet, full of humor and heart, wisdom and hope...
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    drama  female-mc  humor  realistic  adult  audiobook  book  comedy
  • One Way or Another by Colleen Coleman

    One Way or Another by Colleen Coleman

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ‘OMG, OMG, OMG I love this book!… A laugh-out-loud, entertaining read… Hilarious.’ Chelle’s Book Reviews Twenty-nine-year-old Katie Kelly is at an all-time low. The love of her life, gorgeous Ben Cole, took a job abroad and broke her heart, the restaurant she’d put her all into went bust, and now she works in a retirement home, cooking beige mush for the residents...
  • Rules of Payne by Elizabeth Lynx

    Rules of Payne by Elizabeth Lynx

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Morgana Drake has some problems in her life. Problem #1: She has a boss she hates. Truth be told everyone at her company hates him, he’s a jerk. Problem #2: Morgana fantasizes and has sex dreams about her awful boss because he is just sooo good looking. She may have done a lot more than fantasize, but please don't tell anyone...
  • Stupid and Contagious by Caprice Crane

    Stupid and Contagious by Caprice Crane

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Twenty-six-year-old Heaven Albright is a failed PR executive turned embittered waitress. Twenty-nine-year-old Brady Gilbert is a struggling independent music producer with no bands and a get-rich quick product idea: Cinnamilk - a delicious beverage derived from leaving cereal in the bowl too long...
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    drama  female-mc  humor  realistic  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction
  • Lowcountry Summer by Dorothea Benton Frank

    Lowcountry Summer by Dorothea Benton Frank

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Dorothea Benton Frank is a native of the South whose novels vividly capture the wild beauty, laid-back atmosphere, earthy characters, and charming eccentricities of life in South Carolina's Lowcountry. Written with compelling honesty and emotional depth, her stories have touched readers from coast to coast, and propelled her to the top ranks of bestsellerdom nationwide...
  • 13 Dates by Matt Dunn

    13 Dates by Matt Dunn

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Noah Wilson first encounters the quirky, opinionated and very beautiful Angel Fallon, his world is turned upside down. It’s clear she’s not his normal type, but Noah can’t stop thinking about her—which doesn’t bode well for the blind date he’s already late for...
  • Explicit Love Story by Lee Sae In, Dimitri Dairi

    Explicit Love Story by Lee Sae In, Dimitri Dairi

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Semua orang menganggapku ahli dalam berpacaran. Bahkan, pertanyaan mendetail tentang cara berciuman dan melakukan hubungan intim juga datang menghampiriku. Sejujurnya, aku merasa sedih setiap kali pertanyaan seperti itu muncul karena sebenarnya aku adalah "tong kosong yang nyaring bunyinya"...
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    drama  humor  realistic  adult  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction
  • Love on Cue by Catherine Hapka

    Love on Cue by Catherine Hapka

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When you have to sing your heart out, it's best to know how.... Maggie Tannery is a true theater girl and a total shoo-in for the lead in this year's school production of Romeo and Juliet. She's seriously psyched because it looks like her crush, Daniel, might be playing her Romeo both on- and offstage -- if all goes as planned...
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    drama  humor  realistic  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction  teens
  • Party Games  (Simon Romantic Comedies) by Whitney Lyles

    Party Games (Simon Romantic Comedies) by Whitney Lyles

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If only life were one big party. Sara would be looking forward to her sixteenth birthday, but thanks to her mom's party planning business, she's way too wrapped up in someone else's: spoiled socialite Dakota London's. Sara would much rather spend her summer hanging out with Ian, an up-and-coming guitar player and her new crush...
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    drama  humor  realistic  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction  teens
  • Nadia Knows Best by Jill Mansell

    Nadia Knows Best by Jill Mansell

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Love is always just around the corner in a Jill Mansell novel - with a few surprises and a lot of humour on the way to happinessWhen Nadia Kinsella meets Jay Tiernan, she's tempted, of course she is. Stranded together in a remote Cotswold pub while a snowstorm rages outside... let's face it, who would ever know? But Nadia's already met The One...
  • The Finishing Touches by Hester Browne

    The Finishing Touches by Hester Browne

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In "New York Times" bestselling author Hester Browne's delightful new novel, a fading English finishing school is about to get a twenty-first-century makeover...
  • We're All Damaged by Matthew Norman

    We're All Damaged by Matthew Norman

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Andy Carter was happy. He had a solid job. He ran 5Ks for charity. He was living a nice, safe Midwestern existence. And then his wife left him for a handsome paramedic down the street.We’re All Damaged begins after Andy has lost his job, ruined his best friend’s wedding, and moved to New York City, where he lives in a tiny apartment with an angry cat named Jeter that isn’t technically his...
  • The Bette Davis Club by Jane Lotter

    The Bette Davis Club by Jane Lotter

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The morning of her niece’s wedding, Margo Just drinks a double martini and contemplates the many mistakes she’s made in her fifty-odd years of life. Spending three decades in love with a wonderful but unattainable man is pretty high up on her list of missteps, as is a long line of unsuccessful love affairs accompanied by a seemingly endless supply of delicious cocktails...
  • By Invitation Only by Dorothea Benton Frank

    By Invitation Only by Dorothea Benton Frank

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this thoughtful, timely, humorous, and bighearted tale, perennial New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank examines what happens when a young sophisticated Chicagoan falls for the owner of a farm on Johns Island, a lush Lowcountry paradise off the coast of South Carolina-trading the bustle of a cosmopolitan city for the vagaries of a small southern...
  • Going Green by Nick Spalding

    Going Green by Nick Spalding

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Dumped, Actually comes a laugh-out-loud story about saving your job…and maybe saving the planet in the process.Meet Ellie Cooke. When it comes to all things environmental she’s, well, a bit ‘green’. It’s not that she doesn’t care about things like climate change and plastic pollution, it’s just that life has always got in the way of that sort of thing...
  • For Every Solution, A Problem by Kerstin Gier, Erik Macki

    For Every Solution, A Problem by Kerstin Gier, Erik Macki

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In her early thirties with a nosediving career and no hope for her future, trashy-romance writer Gerri grabs a shoebox full of sleeping pills and a big bottle of vodka, ready to transition from “tragic loser” to “tragic loss.” With the final curtain about to drop, she isn’t squeamish about letting people know what she really thinks of them, and dashes off scathing farewell letters...
  • Tiny Imperfections by Alli Frank, Asha Youmans

    Tiny Imperfections by Alli Frank, Asha Youmans

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Wedding Date meets Class Mom in this delicious novel of love, money, and misbehaving parents. One of PopSugar's Best New Books of 2020One of SheReads Most Anticipated Books of 2020"Delightful . . . Hilarious, cringe-worthy, and all too relevant. I ate this book up like a box of candy; you will too." --Tara Conklin, author of The Last RomanticsAll's fair in love and kindergarten admissions...
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    drama  female-mc  humor  realistic  adult  audiobook  book  comedy
  • Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing: A Novel by Allison Winn Scotch

    Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing: A Novel by Allison Winn Scotch

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Politics is a test of wills in a sharp, funny, and emotional novel about truth and consequences by the New York Times bestselling author. Cleo McDougal is a born politician. From congresswoman to senator, the magnetic, ambitious single mother now has her eye on the White House—always looking forward, never back. Until an estranged childhood friend shreds her in an op-ed hit piece gone viral...
  • Spin Control by Niki Burnham, Amy Saidens

    Spin Control by Niki Burnham, Amy Saidens

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Valerie Winslow never thought life in the tiny country of Schwerinborg could be so great.But then she never thought she would be dating the prince of Schwerinborg either! Georg, a "real" prince, is also her first "real" boyfriend. And then everything falls apart. Georg's decided they need to cool off for a while and her dad's sending her back to Virginia to visit her mom...
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    drama  female-mc  humor  realistic  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction
  • Foursome by Jane Fallon

    Foursome by Jane Fallon

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rebecca, Daniel, Alex and Isabel have been best friends since university. Rebecca married Daniel, Alex married Isabel and, for twenty years, they have been inseparable. But all that is about to change... When Alex walks out on Isabel, Rebecca thinks things can't get any worse. But then she finds out the reason why and she's left harbouring a secret she'd rather forget..
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    drama  female-mc  humor  adult  audiobook  book  comedy  contemporary
  • The Next Big Thing by Johanna Edwards

    The Next Big Thing by Johanna Edwards

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this funny, poignant debut, a plus-size heroine becomes a reality TV show contestant and discovers she's already beautiful enough to be the next big thing. Kat Larson figured she had nothing to lose by becoming a contestant on the new reality show From Fat to Fabulous -except maybe a few dozen pounds...
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    female-mc  humor  realistic  adult  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction
  • Bookends by Jane Green

    Bookends by Jane Green

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    On the heels of her national bestsellers Jemima J and Mr. Maybe, British sensation Jane Green delivers a sparkling tale of old friends reunited and old jealousies rekindled.Catherine Warner and Simon Nelson are best friends: total opposites, always together, and both unlucky in love. Cath is scatterbrained, messy, and–since she had her heart broken a few years back–emotionally closed off...
  • A Catered Affair by Sue Margolis

    A Catered Affair by Sue Margolis

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A novel about a jilted bride who's about to discover that not marrying the wrong man can sometimes lead you to the right one. When Tallulah gets jilted at the altar, she gets very drunk and starts making passes at the male wedding guests. She even propositions the caterer. But in the next few weeks, reality comes crashing down around her...
  • The Summer Set by Aimee Agresti

    The Summer Set by Aimee Agresti

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The real drama happens backstage in this juicy novel about an idyllic summer theater where hot stars, has-beens and hopefuls chase roles—and each other.Charlie Savoy was once Hollywood’s hottest A-lister. Now, ten years later, she's pushing forty, exiled from the film world and back at the summer Shakespeare theater that launched her career—and where her old flame, Nick, is the artistic director...
  • P.S. from Paris by Marc Levy

    P.S. from Paris by Marc Levy

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From Marc Levy, the most-read French author alive today, comes a modern-day love story between a famous actress hiding in Paris and a bestselling writer lying to himself. They knew their friendship was going to be complicated, but love—and the City of Lights—just might find a way.On the big screen, Mia plays a woman in love...
  • The Sock Wars by Maia Sepp

    The Sock Wars by Maia Sepp

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lucy Tuttle is a workaholic financial planner whose biggest worry is how to line up the sticky notes on her desk just so, until her free-spirited, vivacious aunt dies in a car accident halfway across the world...
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