Dating your coworker is quintessentially ill-advised, typically discouraged, and often quite scandalous. In spite of all the drawbacks, though, sometimes it turns out okay; in fact, sometimes the rest is history.
If you’re someone who always hopes for a bright side and a happy ending, these fresh audiobooks will be right up your alley. Combining the talents of clever authors and gifted voice actors, these picks will distract from the drama outside and give you a healthy dose of romantic drama to live vicariously through. This notion may especially appeal to anyone whose life was upended by the pandemic and now finds themselves more home alone than usual and with fewer dating prospects thanks to the lack of real-life social situational comedy.
With the weather warming and flowers beginning to bloom, maybe, all work aside, you’re just in the mood for something romantic, something hopeful, or a good love story. Well, you can’t go wrong with one of these!
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Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
Act Your Age, Eve Brown, by Talia Hibbert and read by Ione Butler, stars Eve, who has no idea which job would best suit her and repeatedly quits at the first sign of failure. She ends up trying her hand as a chef at a Bed and Breakfast after she has a terrible interview and — accidentally — hits the owner with her car. Our narrator plays up the humorous quality of Eve’s workplace foibles while creating a believable connection between her and Jacob, the handsome and steely-voiced restaurant owner. Listeners who’ve loved getting to know Eve’s sisters will be delighted to see them make appearances in this final audiobook in the Brown Sisters series.
How To Catch A Queen by Alyssa Cole
We’ve all heard lately that being royal is as much of a job as any other, albeit with special constraints. In How To Catch A Queen, written by Alyssa Cole and read by Karen Chilton, Sanyu, the crown prince of Njaza, and his bride, Shanti, understand that their marriage needs to work for the country; any attempts at romance take a backseat to their official duties. But late-night meetings and mutual attraction lead to them open up about their vulnerabilities and begin truly falling for each other. Chilton leans into Shanti’s strength and single-minded focus as she works toward her lifelong goal of being a queen, balancing the needs of the people of Njaza with Sanyu’s individualized goals.
Lee by Irish Winters
Hold onto your hat for nonstop action in Lee by Irish Winters, read by Troy Duran. Ex-Marine Lee Hart is on a mission in Afghanistan, where his job is a matter of life and death. He ends up protecting Tess Culver and falling for her larger-than-life personality. Narrator Duran has a gritty, gravelly, tough-guy voice for the male mercenaries and succeeds equally well with Tess’s feminine voice.
The Marriage Code by Brooke Burroughs
Rivals Emma and Rishi unhappily team up in India to work on an app project in The Marriage Code, written by Brooke Burroughs and read by the narrating team of Soneela Nankani and Vikas Adam. Though they start as competitors, things turn romantic. Nankani’s self-deprecating, smooth reading illuminates Emma’s delights and fears in her new job while Adam nimbly switches between Indian and American voices.
