Lust or Bust Series by Jami Rogers

Writing romance and not actually being in love is tough. Especially when someone calls you out on it. In hindsight, I shouldn't have dwelled on it, but Lovers Magazine is the it magazine for romance writers. They’ll make or break a career with one review, and me? Well, I wasn’t going down without a fight. I’ll do anything to ensure I stay at the top. Not to mention author of the year is up for grabs.I want that title, and as I said, I’ll do anything to get it... moreWriting romance and not actually being in love is tough. Especially when someone calls you out on it. In hindsight, I shouldn't have dwelled on it, but Lovers Magazine is the it magazine for romance writers. They’ll make or break a career with one review, and me? Well, I wasn’t going down without a fight. I’ll do anything to ensure I stay at the top. Not to mention author of the year is up for grabs.I want that title, and as I said, I’ll do anything to get it.Including spending the next two weeks traveling and working with a woman who despises me, dating a handful of strangers who are selected simply by replying to a survey and letting said woman who doesn’t care for me post the status of those dates online for the entire world to see on my social media accounts.Did I really believe I’d find love over the two-week span of my book tour?No.Did I learn that I can write dozens of romance novels and still know nothing about love?Yep.Turns out, love isn’t always fair, not even after you’ve found the right one. less

The Lust or Bust series continues with Zane Rosey!I wasn’t made to be in love. I used to think I was, but that didn’t work out very well. Instead of dwelling on it, I turned to the books I write. I made my characters more broody and feisty. I make them work for it.It was going swell. Till the day a woman, a real-life woman, decided she wanted to challenge me even more than I challenged the people in my books. And man oh man, does she make me work for it... moreThe Lust or Bust series continues with Zane Rosey!I wasn’t made to be in love. I used to think I was, but that didn’t work out very well. Instead of dwelling on it, I turned to the books I write. I made my characters more broody and feisty. I make them work for it.It was going swell. Till the day a woman, a real-life woman, decided she wanted to challenge me even more than I challenged the people in my books. And man oh man, does she make me work for it.I'll admit, the whole thing was my fault, a result of the cockiness I held before she came into my life. I was the first to suggest we fake a relationship. Once that worked out well—too well if you ask me—I was hooked. I’d have taken any opportunity to spend more time with her. And I did.Even though I knew our time was limited, I wish I had processed the ending better … prepared myself more, you know. Then again… what if I let myself be the hero for once? What if I let myself see that it could all work out and that I could have the girl in the end?Maybe, just maybe, all I needed was for the right woman to come into my life.Here’s to hoping. less

Author Jami Rogers continues the Lust or Bust series with another steamy, enemies to lovers romantic comedy. Living with the one woman who can't stand you is bound to make a great story!I have the career, the house, the family, the friends, but not the girl. The one. The woman to spend my life with. As a romance writer, I’m as cliché as it gets. I love love. I want to be in love. I want to experience everything that comes with heartbreak, happiness, fighting, you name it.I want it all... moreAuthor Jami Rogers continues the Lust or Bust series with another steamy, enemies to lovers romantic comedy. Living with the one woman who can't stand you is bound to make a great story!I have the career, the house, the family, the friends, but not the girl. The one. The woman to spend my life with. As a romance writer, I’m as cliché as it gets. I love love. I want to be in love. I want to experience everything that comes with heartbreak, happiness, fighting, you name it.I want it all.What I didn’t want, however, was to get married in Vegas on a whim.To a woman I can’t stand.To a woman I can’t stop thinking about.I know, I know, that doesn’t even make sense.Trust me, I know. Here’s the kicker. She’s just as stubborn as I am and failure is not a word either of us has in our vocabulary. How far are we going to go till we each get the outcome we want in the end? Life, love—both are on the line.At some point, there’s no coming back, and what happens then? How much do I lose?I’m about to find out. less

Meet a handsome stranger the night before my wedding … check.Jump into his car the next day in my wedding dress and tell him to drive … check.Make him a deal he can’t refuse and then spend the next four weeks with him … check.I know how it sounds, but honestly, becoming a runaway bride was the best decision of my life. Telling the man who drove the getaway car that I could help him accomplish his dream all while knowing the chances of that being true are slim, not a smart choice... moreMeet a handsome stranger the night before my wedding … check.Jump into his car the next day in my wedding dress and tell him to drive … check.Make him a deal he can’t refuse and then spend the next four weeks with him … check.I know how it sounds, but honestly, becoming a runaway bride was the best decision of my life. Telling the man who drove the getaway car that I could help him accomplish his dream all while knowing the chances of that being true are slim, not a smart choice.I can only blame myself for how things turned out. I thought it would be simple. I wasn’t going to see Graham Wright again once our four weeks were up. We’d just go back to our totally opposite lives. I live a life in the spotlight, and he keeps to himself. But the sweet, sexy man whose roof I’m living under makes me think and do things I’d never expected.I definitely didn’t expect that first kiss to happen the way it did. Or for a simple checklist to turn into a summer I never want to end.But if I don’t hold up my end of the deal soon, this same summer that’s changed my life will be one that Graham will want to forget.Tropes in Write That Down include runaway bride, roommates, steamy slow burn, small town, and opposites attract. less

The sexy single dad next door is also my best friend’s brother.And now I’m working for him by hanging out with his son for the summer.It’s a good thing I’ve never been into grumpy men, because Simon Stone holds the record.If I were smart, I’d have never taken the job for Simon. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and well, I’d have taken any job that distracted me from my personal life. Plus, it meant not going home to an empty house, and that was really all I ever wanted... moreThe sexy single dad next door is also my best friend’s brother.And now I’m working for him by hanging out with his son for the summer.It’s a good thing I’ve never been into grumpy men, because Simon Stone holds the record.If I were smart, I’d have never taken the job for Simon. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and well, I’d have taken any job that distracted me from my personal life. Plus, it meant not going home to an empty house, and that was really all I ever wanted.What I didn’t plan for, however, was for my attraction to Simon to grow. For his son to tell his football team that we were dating and for Simon to need me to go with it once his own mother found out. Or for Simon to kiss me one night in a dark bedroom, or for him to watch me through my bedroom window as I... well, I didn’t plan for a lot of things.Most of all, I didn’t plan for how life would be at the end of the summer when I went back to my empty house and my lonely life. All it took was one summer for me to fall for Simon Stone, but as it seems, if I’m not careful, that might be all I ever get. less

Writing a spicy romance novel with your best guy friend isn’t a problem. Picturing him as you write the steamy scenes … now that could get complicated. Tobias Banks is a bestselling romance author and my best friend. He’s smart, brilliant, and kind-hearted. He has never shown an interest in settling down, and he’s the one constant in my life I know I can depend on for anything... moreWriting a spicy romance novel with your best guy friend isn’t a problem. Picturing him as you write the steamy scenes … now that could get complicated. Tobias Banks is a bestselling romance author and my best friend. He’s smart, brilliant, and kind-hearted. He has never shown an interest in settling down, and he’s the one constant in my life I know I can depend on for anything. So it shouldn’t surprise me that as soon as my personal life shatters, he’s there, picking up the pieces and reminding me who I am. In a matter of days, we are back to our lively banter. I’m living in his spare room, and now, he’s helping me achieve my lifelong dream of writing a romance novel. Life feels good again, free … except I’m not looking at him as the friend whom I used to pull all-night study sessions with during college. Nope, I’m looking at him as the man who walks into the kitchen each morning shirtless, smirks when I say something he likes to hear, wears shirts that hug his arms a lot tighter than I remember, and looks at me as if I’m his next meal. Falling for my best friend isn’t smart. I can’t lose him, but if I’ve learned anything since we set out on this journey together, it’s that love doesn’t make the rules; we do. And we only get one chance to do it right. less