Hilly Keen - Romance Author and Cinnamon Roll Superfan
Hilly is an author of bite-sized contemporary romances that feature heroes she'd like to knit sweaters for...if she knew how to knit. Her books are filled with heat, snark, and guaranteed Happy Ever Afters.
She needs a boyfriend to throw off her ex. He needs a buffer for his stepbrother’s wedding. Will the friendship between a commitment-shy entrepreneur and her clumsy coworker survive one tiny little case of fake-dating?
If you love a creative cinnamon roll who doesn’t want to be friends anymore, and a strong women who thinks she has everything under control, you’ll adore this high-heat, friends-to-lovers office romance.
Series in the Hillyverse
A new series of quick reads where members of Wavecrest’s The Base coworking space become more than just colleagues and friends. Each book in the Work For It series of small town, steamy, low angst, bite-sized stories can be read as a standalone, and features a satisfying happy ever after.
After a reality-bending New Year’s kiss, can these coworkers figure out a way to collaborate without more fireworks?
If you love a glasses-wearing golden-retriever hero, a strong, prickly woman, fun times in small spaces, and creative use of office supplies, you’ll adore this high-heat, low-drama office romance.
She’s got a crush and he’s got a secret. What will this romance writer do when she finds out who her coworker really is?
If you love a big, scruffy cinnamon roll with a complicated past, and a romance writer who pictures stories wherever she goes, you’ll adore this high-heat, age-gap office romance.
She needs a boyfriend to throw off her ex. He needs a buffer for his stepbrother’s wedding. Will the friendship between a commitment-shy entrepreneur and her clumsy coworker survive one tiny little case of fake-dating?
If you love a creative cinnamon roll who doesn’t want to be friends anymore, and a strong women who thinks she has everything under control, you’ll adore this high-heat, friends-to-lovers office romance.
A series of stand-alone bite-sized stories set in a small town on the California coast. If you like low angst, high heat, swoony stories about cinnamon roll heroes and the strong women who love them, you'll love the stories in the Welcome to Wavecrest series.
A secret billionaire runaway groom walks into a small-town bar...and everything changes.
If you like runaway grooms, roommates to lovers, thick cinnamon roll heroes, secret billionaires, when opposites attract, and strong, snarky women, you'll love Get A Groom, the first in the Welcome to Wavecrest series.
Can a shy blue collar guy with a secret win the heart of the dynamic woman he's been pining for?
If you like pining cinnamon roll heroes, blue collar men with secrets, when opposites attract, and bold women that know their way around a bookstore, you'll love No More Mr. Shy Guy, the second in the Welcome to Wavecrest series.
A runaway bride wants to get out from under the thumb of her family. Can a fake relationship with a bad boy tattoo artist help close the door on her past?
If you like fake relationships, found family, a hero that looks like a bad boy but is really a tasty cinnamon roll, and a heroine that’s finally getting her life together, then you’ll love The Bride and the Bad Boy, the third in the Welcome to Wavecrest series.
Her high school nemesis, the boy that broke her heart all those years ago, is back in town. Will this grumpy accountant let him back into her life?
If you love a steamy enemies-to-lovers, second-chance, grumpy/sunshine romance, you'll gobble up Hate to Need You, the fourth in the Welcome to Wavecrest series.
What happens when this diner owner finds out her cook is internet-famous, and it's all because of her?
If you love a boss/employee, age-gap romance with a big helping of friends-to-lovers and a cinnamon-roll silver fox, you’ll adore this high heat, low drama story. The Boss and the Silver Fox is the fifth installment in the Welcome to Wavecrest series.
The new guy in town isn’t ready to find love again, and the gorgeous waitress he can’t stop thinking about is allergic to commitment. Will they realize that their…mutually beneficial arrangement…can be so much more?
If you love a steamy best friend's brother, afraid to commit, friends-with-benefits romance, you'll adore up Afraid to Love You, the sixth in the Welcome to Wavecrest series.
Whoever said what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas is a dirty liar. There’s no room for a distracting, hard-to-resist man reminding Sylvie of the one, hot, fever-dream of a night they spent in Vegas. Should she give Will a chance or send him packing?
If you love a determined cinnamon roll hero, banter for days, found family, and a strong, snarky woman, you’ll adore A Husband for the Holidays, a high-heat, low-drama battle-of-wills story.
Every Welcome to Wavecrest story in two collections!
The first four books in the Welcome to Wavecrest series, featuring:
Zane & Alice
Owen & Rocky
Ryan & Cecilia
Nick & Evelyn
Featuring:
Bruno & Bea
Joel & Dana
Will & Sylvie
Archie & June
Caught in the Rain
A series of small disasters strands a curvy bookseller with the man who stars in all her fantasies. Will she end up feeling the rainy day blues, or like the heroine in one of her favorite books?
If you love a steamy forced-proximity, friends-to-lovers romance, you'll enjoy Caught in the Rain, a Welcome to Wavecrest short.
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