The Next Round

Winner - 2025 IndieReader Discovery Award for Romance
Winner - 2025 Passionate Plume Award - Contemporary
Winner - 2025 HOLT Medallion Award - Best First Book
Finalist - 2025 HOLT Medallion Award - Long Contemporary
Finalist - 2025 American Fiction Awards - Romance
Finalist - 2024 Copyright Reader Views Reviewer's Choice Literary Awards - Romance
Honorable Mention - 2025 Beach Book Festival - Romance
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Shaken and stirred.

Five years is a long time between drinks for old friends.

Shaken by a series of heartbreaks, Andie Herrera's fear of jumping into new relationships leads her to run away and keep her distance from the possibilities of love, even with restaurant and bar entrepreneur, Chris Vaughn.

After five years apart, Andie and Chris are unexpectedly thrown together in a mix of professional and personal circumstances, as they work on the launch of a new bar establishment. Is it their chance to re-ignite their friendship and heal the rupture from the last time they saw each other?

The heady cocktail of familiar warmth, heated conversation, and undeniable chemistry in their shared moments has Andie questioning what she really wants: friendship-or maybe even more, this time around. Can Andie move beyond her deep-seated fears to finally take the leap of faith and meet Chris halfway? Is it possible that the person who knows her best might be the love she's been missing?