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Not Looking by Alaina Rose

Cover Reveal: April 2025

Release Day: July 7th 2025

Tropes: Small Town, Single Mom, Secret Identity, Online Correspondence, Dislike to Lovers, Black Cat/Golden Retriever, Tabletop (and Bedroom) Role-Playing Games

Series: Standalone.

POV: Dual POV, 1st Person

Content Warnings: On-page sex, Light BDSM (dom/sub dynamics and dirty talk), Discussions of Cheating Ex, Discussions of Job Loss, On-page Scenes with a Parent with Dementia. 18+.

Expected Page Count: 300

BLURB:

Susan Merriman has her hands full. Single-mothering fourteen-year-old twin girls, she just wants to shuttle them to Starling Hills High School with minimum psychological damage. Without her planner and Dungeons and Dragons party to bolster her up, she's not sure she could keep her whirlwind day-to-day in check.

Enter Dillon Weaver, Fun Uncle extraordinaire and new in Starling Hills after his job was “eliminated.” For the next few weeks, Dillon is in charge of his thirteen-year-old niece while her parents travel Europe. Talk about being thrown into a cave of trolls!

Both are fans of the same D&D podcast, chatting to each other in an online server. After they unknowingly meet at their girls’ soccer game, Dillon’s golden retriever energy couldn’t antagonize black cat Susan more. They run into each other at school pick-up and parent teacher conferences, with the final blow being when Dillon scores an invite to Susan’s D&D group.

Neither are looking for love, but they can’t deny the sparks. After all, they say the best things show up when you’re not looking.