Playing to Win Series by Amalia Theresa, Amalia Dillin

When dating is a lottery, you have to play to win.Best friends since Freshman year at Midwestern State University, Sully and Kate have been playing, and losing, the dating game for four long years, comparing notes along the way. Kate is sure that personality trumps all, and Sully refuses to settle for anything less than perfect chemistry, but they’re both determined to find The One... moreWhen dating is a lottery, you have to play to win.Best friends since Freshman year at Midwestern State University, Sully and Kate have been playing, and losing, the dating game for four long years, comparing notes along the way. Kate is sure that personality trumps all, and Sully refuses to settle for anything less than perfect chemistry, but they’re both determined to find The One. Finally, after graduation, it looks like they might have landed their winning tickets—there’s just one problem: it turns out, after years living as strictly platonic roommates, sparks have begun to fly at home.But Kate needs her best friend—Sully is the only safety net she has left. Add in the stress of figuring out her life plan post-college, a hot mess of a family situation threatening to suck her back in, and the fear of not living up to Sully’s super high bar for sexual chemistry, and feelings or not, kissing that frog might be too big of a risk.Either way, the rules of the game they’ve been playing have changed. And Kate and Sully are rapidly approaching a crisis their friendship might not survive. Not unless they’re willing to go all in.Playing to Win is the first book in an all new, scorchingly hot romantic comedy series from the author of Daughter of a Thousand Years and From Asgard, With Love. less

When it comes to love, you can’t win if you don’t play.Nicole Williams doesn’t have time for a relationship. She’s in grad school, fighting with her thesis and second-guessing her masters program choice. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t interested in a one-night stand—and despite being her name twin, William Nicholas Fowler seems like a guy who knows how to get the job done.When their surprise hook-up takes a turn to the date-like, Will realizes a one-night stand isn't enough... moreWhen it comes to love, you can’t win if you don’t play.Nicole Williams doesn’t have time for a relationship. She’s in grad school, fighting with her thesis and second-guessing her masters program choice. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t interested in a one-night stand—and despite being her name twin, William Nicholas Fowler seems like a guy who knows how to get the job done.When their surprise hook-up takes a turn to the date-like, Will realizes a one-night stand isn't enough. Not with the only person he’s ever been comfortable being honestly himself. So he makes her an offer: instead of never repeating what was a sexplosive event for both of them, maybe they could give being friends with benefits a shot?Nicole agrees only because they live ninety miles apart, until she realizes that for Will, she’s a lifeline—the only purely selfish choice he’s made. From the family restaurant that ties him to a small-town future he doesn’t want, to the fake relationship he keeps forgetting to bring up, he’s too busy being what everyone else expects to make time for what he needs.That isn’t the kind of drama she signed up for, and neither are the feelings she’s started to catch. And unless Nicole figures out where she’s going to land her own life, their fledgling romance might never leave the nest.--The second book in the Playing to Win series, Playing it Safe is a scandalously hot millennial rom com perfect for fans of Christina Lauren's Wild Nights with some Natalie Portman/Ashton Kutcher No Strings Attached vibes. less

The last thing Nic wants is to come between Will and his friends, and that means there’s one last challenge before she can fully claim her happily ever after: Kate.While she was living in Ohio, they could all avoid whatever awkwardness might linger from Nic and Sully’s brief fling over a year ago and the friendship that followed, but now that Kate’s moving to Heron Lake to work for Will at Fowler’s, Nic is determined to clear the air between them... moreThe last thing Nic wants is to come between Will and his friends, and that means there’s one last challenge before she can fully claim her happily ever after: Kate.While she was living in Ohio, they could all avoid whatever awkwardness might linger from Nic and Sully’s brief fling over a year ago and the friendship that followed, but now that Kate’s moving to Heron Lake to work for Will at Fowler’s, Nic is determined to clear the air between them.But there are more tensions between Sully, Kate, and Will than just Nic’s own insertion into their long-established dynamic, and Kate has her own insecurities to face, now that she’s back among her friends.Taking place just a few months before the epilogue of Playing it Safe, Settling Up navigates the start of a new friendship between Nic and Kate, and revisits the relationships of both Will & Nic and Kate & Sully. less

When you bet on love, the house always wins.All Violet has ever wanted is to run her family’s barbecue restaurant, the locally famous Fowler’s. Now, with her parents away on a long overdue vacation, and her brother living his own dreams elsewhere, it’s time to prove she has what it takes to keep her family’s legacy alive. But left alone with her fears of failure, she might be starting to buckle under the pressure... moreWhen you bet on love, the house always wins.All Violet has ever wanted is to run her family’s barbecue restaurant, the locally famous Fowler’s. Now, with her parents away on a long overdue vacation, and her brother living his own dreams elsewhere, it’s time to prove she has what it takes to keep her family’s legacy alive. But left alone with her fears of failure, she might be starting to buckle under the pressure.When Abraham O'Sullivan lands at Fowler’s on his way back home, his dreams of playing professional hockey shattered by injury, a driven, delightful, and all grown-up Violet makes him an offer he can’t refuse: instead of the move back in with his parents and the I told you so he’s dreading, he can house-sit with her while he figures out his next step—staring down a post-hockey future that’s arrived well before he’d formed any kind of plan.Once she starts playing house with Sex-God O’Sullivan, it doesn't take long before the overstressed Violet’s focus fractures. With Abe, for the first time ever, she’s found something she wants as much as Fowler's, and those mutual feelings are a threat to everything they’ve both worked toward with single-minded drive. They’ll each have to decide if being together is worth giving up the greatest loves of their lives.Playing House is the third book in an all new, scorchingly hot romantic comedy series from the author of Daughter of a Thousand Years and From Asgard, With Love. less