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ANY TROPE BUT YOU

Victoria Lavine

A delightful and steamy rom-com debut.
Beloved romance author Margot Bradley doesn't believe in Happily Ever Afters. She secretly writes Happily Never Afters: alternate endings that swap weddings and babies for divorce papers and slashed tires. But romance pays the bills - until a fan hacks her computer and leaks her Happily Never After file.

Canceled by BookTokkers and dropped by her publisher, Margot decides to trade meet-cutes for murder. The fictional kind. Margot's sister books her a six-week stay in a remote Alaskan resort to pen her murder mystery. When Margot arrives and finds herself leaping into the arms of the handsome proprietor to escape the wildlife, she fears she's just landed in a romance novel plot instead.

Dr. Forrest Wakefield never expected to leave his dream job to work at his family's resort while caring for his ailing father. Forrest doesn't have any room in his life for another person he could lose. As one unlikely trope after another draws them together, they'll each have to learn to melt the ice around their heartsor become a Happily Never After story themselves.

Victoria Lavine's love of romance novels started in high school with a crate of old bodice rippers and a wink from her local librarian. Now, she writes her own Happily Ever Afters when she's not enjoying the great state of Maine with her husband and daughter.
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Any Trope But You is a love letter to the romance genre and to the concept of Happily Ever Afters. Victoria Lavine manages to incorporate so many beloved tropes while telling a story that feels totally fresh and original, and she writes characters with such depth that I might have momentarily forgotten I could not request Margot Bradley's books from my local library. Plus, it may be set in frigid, snowy Alaska, but make no mistakethis book is HOT!!! A truly charming debut that had me smiling, blushing, and wishing for my own pet moose.

Incredibly clever, deeply relatable, and sparkling with the full spectrum of emotions, ANY TROPE BUT YOU is everything I love in a romance. Victoria Lavine is your next auto-buy author.

Any Trope but You is truly a breath of fresh air. Touching, heartfelt and swoon-worthy with crackling banter and mastery of romantic and comedic timing, Victoria Lavine tells a story of love, failure, longing, and family against a snowy, cozy landscape. Brilliant and effervescent, with imperfect characters who live and truly learn, Lavine poetically twists tropes in a way that will have you melting through to the very end.

Lavine turns many of the common romance novel tropes on their heads in this stunning debut. Top-notch banter will have readers laughing out loud as they root for Margot to finally achieve her own happily-ever-after.

UK: Bonniers, Spain & Latin America: V&R Editoras, Israel: Kinneret, Russia: Exmo

There are few things as good as a romance about cynical romance writers, and this one adds a wink and a nod to today's "trope"-based romance culture, too!