The Match Series by Catherine Avril Morris

Meet Adam Match: charming, confident, and a total catch. As founder and face of dating website Mister-Match.com, Adam is a celebrity gossip darling-du-jour, and his business is a runaway success. His personal life, on the other hand... Not so much. Adam does his best to keep his private life private. After all, if the gossip rags caught wind of the fact that Mister Match is a lonely divorcé, they’d be circling like sharks in no time... moreMeet Adam Match: charming, confident, and a total catch. As founder and face of dating website Mister-Match.com, Adam is a celebrity gossip darling-du-jour, and his business is a runaway success. His personal life, on the other hand... Not so much. Adam does his best to keep his private life private. After all, if the gossip rags caught wind of the fact that Mister Match is a lonely divorcé, they’d be circling like sharks in no time. Which is just what happens when Adam meets massage therapist Lisa DeLuca. An instant, mutual attraction leads to a seemingly harmless lunch date, which turns into an outright circus as paparazzi photographers swarm. Later, when a cutthroat journalist backs Adam into a corner, he tells a desperate little lie—that Lisa, a woman he knew for all of an afternoon, is his fiancée. In an instant, Lisa’s pleasantly humdrum life is caught up in a tornado—but Lisa is in the eye of the storm. Without cable, a Smartphone or Internet access (it’s a long story), she doesn’t realize her face is suddenly plastered across celebrity news sites as Mister Match’s “secret bride.” Besides, she’s busy dealing with her newfound attraction to Adam. She really, really likes this guy. But she’s nursing a broken heart after learning the hard way that handsome men can’t be trusted, and she’s not about to ruin the new life she’s worked so hard to build by falling for Mister Match. Plus, her two meddling best friends, Clare and Willow, have appointed themselves Lisa’s Fairy God-Cupids, setting her up on Mister-Match.com to find her a good man. Suddenly, Lisa has more men on her plate than she knows what to do with—including Adam, who comes to her with the oddest plea: to pretend to be his betrothed for the next month. Suddenly, Lisa is spending her weekdays meeting men chosen for her by her best friends, and her weekends with Adam. In no time, a bevy of celebrity gossip bloggers are accusing her of cheating on her supposed fiancé. And there’s another little problem: Lisa is falling head over heels for Mister Match. She can’t deny that after a tough few years, having so many options is kind of delicious. Can a girl have her cake and eat it too? Or will Lisa ultimately have to make a choice—to cling to her hard-won independence, or to follow her heart? less

Back in high school, if someone had told Clare Fox she would write for a living someday, she would have laughed in their face — or just dumped her cafeteria lunch down their shirt. Ten years later, she has overcome both dyslexia and her high-school-dropout status with her own, personal ace in the hole: Her extensive knowledge of the male species. Now, Clare is Miss Match, the sassy, savvy love advice columnist for online dating site Mister-Match.com... moreBack in high school, if someone had told Clare Fox she would write for a living someday, she would have laughed in their face — or just dumped her cafeteria lunch down their shirt. Ten years later, she has overcome both dyslexia and her high-school-dropout status with her own, personal ace in the hole: Her extensive knowledge of the male species. Now, Clare is Miss Match, the sassy, savvy love advice columnist for online dating site Mister-Match.com. No one would dispute that Clare knows all there is to know about the male species — though some might say she knows all the wrong things. And lately, her advice columns have strayed a little beyond sassy and into the realm of acerbic...or even downright jaded. It’s just that her life used to be a lot more exciting. A year ago, she was downtown five nights a week. These days, a typical Friday night is spent on the couch with a pint of Ben & Jerry’s for company. When Clare’s boss sends her on a singles’ cruise, ostensibly to vet the company for a possible partnership deal, Clare can read between the lines: Her job is on the line, and she’s been given one last chance to shape up...or ship out. And then there are Clare’s meddling best friends, who have cooked up a little scheme of their own. On the sly, they hire the Love Doctor — refined, genteel Javier Valentín — to woo their best friend and sweeten up her bitter heart. Healing broken hearts, after all, is Javier’s work and his passion... Except he normally does it with the woman’s full knowledge and consent. His process highlights perfect honesty, and it’s not about sex — it’s about helping a woman reconnect with her own strength, desires and sense of self-worth. But Clare is a prime candidate for the Love Doctor’s expertise. Javier can’t pass up such a juicy case, but as soon as he meets her, his careful, tried-and-true process flies right out the window as he is captivated by this fiery, hard-hearted vixen. Good thing he can see right through her bravado to the tender and passionate heart within. But can Clare let the Love Doctor past her walls and defenses, or will she end up doing what she’s done to a hundred other men, and stomp his heart to pieces? --- HEAT LEVEL: Steamy. MISS MATCH is a contemporary romance novel that contains several explicit lovemaking scenes, and plenty of sexual tension between the hero and heroine. less