Books

Elizabeth is currently querying book 1 in the Puzzled Lovers Series, editing the manuscript for book 2, and plotting book 3.

The Hook

In law, an “attractive nuisance” is something dangerous that tempts people into trespassing.

But for Bethany Stevens, a people-pleasing third-year law student on her redemption arc, her “attractive nuisance” is Garrett Rodgers, the Cinnamon Roll tenure-seeking poli-sci professor she’s been crushing on since he started working across from her in the library.

If Garrett tempts Bethany into loving him and she loses everything, who will be liable for her injured heart?

The Blurb

Bethany Stevens is singularly focused on making her parents proud. After a toxic relationship derailed her in college, she’s back on track to graduate at the top of her law school class and secure a prestigious job. It’s everything her parents want, and Bethany refuses to let them down again. But when an “attractive nuisance” distracts Bethany from her work, she finds herself agreeing to a date … just to get him out of her system.

Garrett Rodgers has spent years building an academic career in the shadow of his formidable mother, one of his hometown university’s top donors. He has one year and one chance left to secure a tenured faculty position, but he wants to earn the job on his own merit. Garrett tells himself that doubling down on hard work will have to be enough—especially because leaving the university also means leaving the law student he can’t stop thinking about.

One date leads to more, and Bethany can’t balance her semester and steamy new romance without important things slipping through the cracks, threatening the opportunity Bethany has fought to salvage and her relationship with her disapproving parents. And as Garrett falls for Bethany, he struggles more and more to pretend his career trajectory is on track. If Garrett tempts Bethany into loving him and she loses everything, who will be liable for her injured heart?

The Audience

Attractive Nuisance is a sweet-and-spicy, open-door contemporary romance, complete at 90,000 words. Packed with punny banter and endearingly quirky characters, it should appeal to readers who enjoy the humor, relatability, and spice of Abby Jimenez’s Your’s Truly and Just for the Summer, and Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis.

The Tropes

• Instalust
• One Night Only
• Redemption 
• Cinnamon Roll
• Found Family

Forthcoming