Steamy Lit: For the Love of Tropes – Fiction

In Nadine Gonzalez’s Old Flames: A Novel, author Jules is running from her past when she arrives in Key West, Florida, for a prestigious literary festival and reunites with Leo, a captivating horror writer with his own demons. As the tension between them rises – and a supernatural mystery demands their attention – Jules and Leo must face the ghosts of the past that threaten to consume them. In Joss Richard’s Let’s Kiss and Tell: A Novel, a sex columnist who champions the idea that you don’t need a partner to be happy needs a relationship to write about. He’s a news writer dealing with an ex-wife who is remarrying and needs a plus-one for the wedding. Perhaps a fake relationship can help them both professionally and personally — but unexpected real feelings intrude. Can they rewrite their story? In Ali Rosen‘s The Apparent Trap, Ezzie Halevi’s life as a morning show producer is blissfully straightforward. But when sparks fly after accidentally introducing her widowed father to her show’s recently hired, much younger co-anchor, her carefully curated routine starts to unravel. Worse, she discovers her dad’s new girlfriend is the estranged daughter of Lee Morgan, the charming chef who…