Love at First Set by Jennifer Dugan

Love at First Set

A Novel

Jennifer Dugan

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · May 23, 2023

Sometimes true love takes a little heavy lifting "The most hilarious disaster bisexuals you’ll ever meet.” —Dahlia Adler, Buzzfeed Books This irresistible adult debut from beloved YA author Jennifer Dugan is a queer romcom for fans of Delilah Green Doesn’t Care and Written in the Stars, in which a gym employee accidentally ruins her bosses’ daughter’s wedding, then even more accidentally falls for the runaway bride...

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Who it’s for
A queer romcom pairs workplace trouble with runaway-bride chemistry and secrets that keep multiplying.
Themes
Queer romance, Finding yourself, Workplace insecurity
Pacing
Fast

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Sometimes true love takes a little heavy lifting "The most hilarious disaster bisexuals you’ll ever meet.” —Dahlia Adler, Buzzfeed Books This irresistible adult debut from beloved YA author Jennifer Dugan is a queer romcom for fans of Delilah Green Doesn’t Care and Written in the Stars, in which a gym employee accidentally ruins her bosses’ daughter’s wedding, then even more accidentally falls for the runaway bride...

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The gym is Lizzie’s life—it’s her passion, her job, and the only place that’s ever felt like home. Unfortunately, her bosses consider her a glorified check-in girl at best, and the gym punching bag at worst. When their son, Lizzie’s best friend, James, begs her to be his plus one at his perfect sister Cara’s wedding, things go wrong immediately, and culminate in Lizzie giving a drunken pep talk to a hot stranger in the women’s bathroom—except that stranger is actually the bride-to-be, and Lizzie has accidentally convinced her to ditch her groom. Now, newly directionless Cara is on a quest to find herself, and Lizzie—desperate to make sure her bosses never find out her role in this fiasco—gets strong-armed by James into “entertaining” her. Cara doesn’t have to know it’s a setup; it’ll just be a quick fling before she sobers up and goes back to her real life. After all, how could someone like Cara fall for someone like Lizzie, with no career and no future? But the more Lizzie gets to know Cara, the more she likes her, and the bigger the potential disaster if any of her rapidly multiplying secrets get out. Because now it’s not just Lizzie’s job and entire future on the line, but also the girl of her dreams.

Flirtation Meets Fallout

A queer romcom pairs workplace trouble with runaway-bride chemistry and secrets that keep multiplying.

Come here for

  • Banter and romantic misfires with real stakes
  • A gym-centered heroine caught between work and desire

Expect

  • A messy, light-on-its-feet queer romance
  • Secrets complicating a fling that grows into something more

Where it sits

Lesbian Romance93%
Romantic Comedy84%
Workplace Romance22%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Funny Fiction
  • Lesbian Fiction
  • Contemporary Romance
  • Lesbian Romance
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  • New Adult Romance
  • Romantic Comedy
  • Bisexual Romance
  • Workplace Romance
Authors
Jennifer Dugan
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
May 23, 2023
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Queer romance · Finding yourself · Workplace insecurity
Reading lane
Funny Fiction