High Tea Series by Kate O'Keeffe

The No More Bad Dates Pact: stop dating the wrong guys and start dating the right ones - weirdos and jerks need not apply.Every part of my life is a mess—and not even a hot one. My so-called career is on hold, I keep disappointing my family by not doing “something important" with my life, and I always, always choose the wrong guys.Case in point: getting dumped during the romantic vows at a wedding. I’ve officially hit rock bottom. It’s time I got serious about finding a decent man... moreThe No More Bad Dates Pact: stop dating the wrong guys and start dating the right ones - weirdos and jerks need not apply.Every part of my life is a mess—and not even a hot one. My so-called career is on hold, I keep disappointing my family by not doing “something important" with my life, and I always, always choose the wrong guys.Case in point: getting dumped during the romantic vows at a wedding. I’ve officially hit rock bottom. It’s time I got serious about finding a decent man. So, I form a dating pact with two friends who are just as bad at choosing men as me. We agree to vet one another’s dates to weed out the weirdos and jerks.The No More Bad Dates pact is officially born.But when my roommate surprises me by joining the pact, he finds something wrong with every single guy I meet. Jason Christie is confident, sexy, and good looking in a movie star kind of way. Sure, we’re good friends, but he’s only ever been Jason, the serial dater. Totally off limits.That is until I start to have feelings for him. Feelings I should definitely not be having. Feelings like wondering what it’d be like to kiss him.No. I can’t go there. Not only will it destroy our friendship, but I know he’ll break my heart.Only now I’ve begun to fall, I don’t know how to stop.No More Bad Dates is a fun, heart-warming friends to lovers rom com for fans of Sophie Kinsella, Bridget Jones's Diary, Lindsey Kelk, and TV shows like Jane the Virgin. It's a light-hearted, humorous, and fun full-length novel that can be read as a standalone title. High Tea is a spin-off of Kate O'Keeffe's bestselling Cozy Cottage Café series. less

Twenty-five-year-old personal assistant Darcy Evans likes to be in control of her life. But there's one thing she can't get a handle on: men.Sick of terrible dates, she makes a pact with her friends to only date good guys. But it's tough out there. From the liars and cheats to the positively weird, where's a modern day hero when you want one?Then, when her boss buys an art gallery, Darcy's forced to work with photographer Alex Walsh. He's a blast from her past and definitely not hero material... moreTwenty-five-year-old personal assistant Darcy Evans likes to be in control of her life. But there's one thing she can't get a handle on: men.Sick of terrible dates, she makes a pact with her friends to only date good guys. But it's tough out there. From the liars and cheats to the positively weird, where's a modern day hero when you want one?Then, when her boss buys an art gallery, Darcy's forced to work with photographer Alex Walsh. He's a blast from her past and definitely not hero material. Ridiculously handsome and charming, he's all those distracting things Darcy doesn't need, especially when she can't forgive him for what happened back in high school.Can enemies become lovers, or is a painful past too hard to forgive?No More Terrible Dates is a fun, heart-warming enemies to lovers story for fans of Sophie Kinsella. The High Tea series is a spin-off of Kate O'Keeffe's bestselling Cozy Cottage Café series. Escape to New Zealand in this fun, feel-good chick lit series! less

What do you do when you want to find your happily ever after, but you're stuck in a fake relationship with the last guy you'd ever want to date?Twenty-five-year-old Erin Andrews has got a problem. She works for the country's most successful rugby team but a bitter past tells her all pro sports players are self-satisfied, arrogant jerks. There's no way on this sweet Earth she'd date one... moreWhat do you do when you want to find your happily ever after, but you're stuck in a fake relationship with the last guy you'd ever want to date?Twenty-five-year-old Erin Andrews has got a problem. She works for the country's most successful rugby team but a bitter past tells her all pro sports players are self-satisfied, arrogant jerks. There's no way on this sweet Earth she'd date one. That's why she agrees to a pact with her best friends to find good guys to date, and for her that definitely does not include guys like the "Wild Boy of Rugby," Nick Zachary.So, when Nick is in desperate need of a reputation rehab, the big bosses turn to her as the nice, ordinary girl who can get his image back on track. For Erin, being that girl is the last thing she would ever want to do. That is until she realizes just how much being Nick's high profile fake girlfriend can do for her dream of becoming a fashion designer.But playing this game of make-believe begins to feel real, and Erin wonders if the "Wild Boy of Rugby" could be her happily ever after...No More Horrible Dates is a fun, feel-good fake relationship story for fans of Sophie Kinsella. High Tea is a spin-off of Kate O'Keeffe's bestselling Cozy Cottage Café series. Escape to New Zealand in this fun, feel-good chick lit series! less