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One Last First Date
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One Last First Date
Book 1 of the Cozy Cottage Café series
240 pages · First published 2017
Cassie has endured enough disappointing dates and makes a pact with her friends that the next man she dates will be the man she marries. Her carefully researched candidate is handsome doctor Parker Hamilton, who seems perfect on paper and therefore ideal for her plan. The complication is Will Jordan, Cassie’s irritating coworker, whose teasing and persistent presence keep distracting her from the man she has already selected as husband material. This romantic comedy turns a rigid dating strategy into a lesson about chemistry, compatibility, and the danger of deciding the ending before the relationship has even begun.
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