Because it's not always love at first sight.
1. The Trouble With Hating You by Sajni Patel
Liya is successful, smart, driven, and has zero interest in letting her parents arrange her marriage. Jay is a handsome and successful catch by anyone's standards, but when their parents set them up, Liya walks out...only to find that Jay is the new corporate lawyer her company has hired and they have work together. As Liya tries to keep boundaries between her work life and personal life, she keeps running into Jay everywhere she turns.
2. Written in the Stars by Alexandra Bellefluer
When Darcy and Elle are set up by Darcy's brother, it's an absolute disaster, so Darcy lies and says it went well. Elle is very confused, as she cannot stand uptight Darcy, but she agrees to fake-date Darcy just through the holidays. Only, the more time they spend together, the less fake the feelings seem to get.
3. A Rogue of One's Own by Evie Dunmore
Lady Lucie is an Oxford suffragist who has lived on her own for years, ever since she ran away from home. She and her fellow suffragists have now raised enough money to buy into a established publishing house in London and are excited to start using their new business venture to sway ladies to their cause...up until Lord Tristan Ballentine and his majority share in the business ruin everything. As Lucie goes about convincing the frustrating Tristan to let her run the publisher, she finds that he might actually an okay guy after all...
4. Fight or Flight by Samantha Young
Ava is flying back from a funeral when she has a run-in with Caleb Scott, a handsomely infuriating man who steals her first class ticket out from under her and antagonizes her the entire flight...only for them to somehow end up spending a layover together. When Caleb winds up sticking around a bit longer, Ava has to confront her new and confusing feelings for him.
5. Make Up or Break Up by Lily Menon
Annika is the mind behind Make Up, an app to help failing relationships, and her former fling Hudson is the brain behind the app Break Up, the "Uber for break ups." She's furious that his app is much more successful than hers, and that he's moving into the office next to hers. When they must compete for funding, she discovers that maybe there's more to him than she originally thought.