Best Friends and Birthdays

How Evie sees her life as she approaches her thirty-fifth birthday: pretty close to perfect.How Evie's mom sees her life: doomed for spinsterhood and in need of matchmaking at every turn.Between her three lifelong best friends, a good job, and a beautiful home, Evie has nearly everything she needs. She's in no hurry to find love…until her first (and unrequited) love, Wesley, unexpectedly returns to town for the birthday party Evie's mom is throwing, and stirs up all kinds of long-buried feelings.As the boy next door, Wes was one of Evie's closest childhood friends. Somewhere between playing out scenes from their favorite movie and listening to Wesley's endless mixtapes, Evie fell in love. As the old friends catch up after years apart, Evie realizes she never fell out of love with Wesley, and begins to wonder if her feelings for him might not be as one-sided as she always assumed.While her mom attempts to find Evie's perfect match, Evie can't help thinking she's already found him. Too bad he's only in town for a week…*Matchmaking & Mixtapes is a childhood-friends-to-lovers, best friend's brother romantic comedy set in the fictional town of Bellevue, Ontario, Canada. Full of banter, crackling chemistry, and plenty of swoons, this is a kissing-only romance with mild language. It's the first in the new Best Friends & Birthdays series. Marie Landry's life revolves around books; when she's not writing them, she's reading them, taking pictures of them for bookstagram, or blogging about them. An avid reader from a young age, she loves getting lost in characters' worlds, whether they're of her own making or someone else's. She particularly loves stories with as much of an emphasis on self-discovery and friendship as on romance...but don't leave out the romance!She lives in a cozy apartment in Ontario, Canada with the best roommate ever, and can be found working in a room surrounded by Funko Pops and-you guessed it-books. When not doing bookish things, you can often find her cooking, exploring areas both familiar and new, watching TV, or taking photos. Her fangirl heart perks up at the mention of Star Wars, Sherlock, and Doctor Who, and you'll often find nerdy references woven into her books.For more on Marie and her books please visit http://www.ramblingsofadaydreamer.com. You can also find her on Instagram at @sweetmarie_83 and Twitter at @sweetmarie83. The Best Friends & Birthdays series follows lifelong friends Evie, Stella, Hollie, and Louisa as they navigate the ups and downs of life, romance, and friendship in the lead-up to their thirty-fifth birthdays.These sweet/kissing-only romances are fun and lighthearted while featuring real-life issues.

Can serendipity bring them together again for the third Christmas in a row?Sylvie and Cole met by chance two Christmases ago and spent a magical, memorable afternoon together. Despite their shared attraction, they knew their connection was a case of 'right place, wrong time', and they weren't meant to be.Or so they thought until the next Christmas when they ran into each other again in a different city. This time it was a case of being in the right place at the right time, but their circumstances were still the same, and being together just didn't make sense. That didn't stop them from indulging in a night of passion. After all, who were they to question what felt like a combination of fate and Christmas magic?Now it's almost Christmas again and it seems like their luck has run out. Will serendipity bring them together again or are they destined to remain apart with nothing but beautiful memories of their time together?*Unlike the other books in the Best Friends & Birthdays series, Silver Bells & Serendipity has on-page, open-door steamy content. It was originally published in 2022's Wanted: Mistletoe Anthology. It can be read as a standalone. Marie Landry's life revolves around books; when she's not writing them, she's reading them, taking pictures of them for bookstagram, or blogging about them. An avid reader from a young age, she loves getting lost in characters' worlds, whether they're of her own making or someone else's. She particularly loves stories with as much of an emphasis on self-discovery and friendship as on romance...but don't leave out the romance!She lives in a cozy apartment in Ontario, Canada with the best roommate ever, and can be found working in a room surrounded by Funko Pops and-you guessed it-books. When not doing bookish things, you can often find her cooking, exploring areas both familiar and new, watching TV, or taking photos. Her fangirl heart perks up at the mention of Star Wars, Sherlock, and Doctor Who, and you'll often find nerdy references woven into her books.For more on Marie and her books please visit http://www.ramblingsofadaydreamer.com. You can also find her on Instagram at @sweetmarie_83 and Twitter at @sweetmarie83. The Best Friends & Birthdays series follows lifelong friends Evie, Stella, Hollie, and Louisa as they navigate the ups and downs of life, romance, and friendship in the lead-up to their thirty-fifth birthdays.These sweet/kissing-only romances are fun and lighthearted while featuring real-life issues.