The queen of delicious pining returns! This book is a hilarious and modern Cinderella story that feels like eating warm chocolate cake -- New York Times bestselling author Talia Hibbert

I don’t think anyone has ever delivered on a slow burn quite like this -- Rosie Danan, bestselling author of The Roommate

Delivers all of the heart, humour and steam with her usual deft writing style. And romance-reading Ted Lasso fans are sure to be delighted with her take on the surliest soccer star to ever set foot on the field -- New York Times bestselling author Kylie Scott

To summarize Charlotte Stein’s When Grumpy Met Sunshine, let me borrow words from the hero, the gruff former soccer player Alfie Harding, when he meets Mabel Willicker, who’s been hired to ghostwrite his memoir: “You think I’m a big hairy manimal who’s never gonna be able to work well with this here human cupcake.”

But though they seem like opposites, underneath Mabel and Alfie are anguished, self-doubting weirdos. What they need - and what they’re terrified of - is liberation from the cages they’ve built for themselves.

Alfie’s Roy Kent-inspired voice is a triumph - and very, very funny - but sex is where Stein really shines. This, children, is how the professionals do it. Not a rote list of parts and positions, but a physical flow between two people. It’s the difference between seeing choreography laid out in footprints on the floor, and being swept away by the dance.

- New York Times book review

Charlotte Stein is the Romantic Times nominated author of over fifty short stories, novellas and novels, including entries in The Mammoth Book of Hot Romance and Best New Erotica 10. When not writing hilarious, deeply emotional and intensely sexy books, she can be found eating jelly turtles, watching space wizards fight zombies, and occasionally lusting after hunks. For more on Charlotte, visit www.charlottestein.net