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'Scuse Me While I Kill This Guy

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Troubles and Treats

Tara Sivec · 224 pages

Single Parent ProtagonistDark ComedyRomantic ComedyFirst Person Narrator
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The Last Hour Between Worlds

Melissa Caruso · 432 pages

Single Parent ProtagonistAssassinsFirst Person NarratorWitty Banter
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Louisiana Longshot

Jana Deleon · 248 pages

AssassinsRomantic ComedyFunnySeries Starter
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Nearly Departed in Deadwood

Ann Charles · 376 pages

Single Parent ProtagonistRomantic ComedyWitty BanterFunny
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Sustained

Emma Chase · 267 pages

Single Parent ProtagonistRomantic ComedyFirst Person NarratorWitty Banter
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Killers of a Certain Age

Deanna Raybourn · 368 pages

AssassinsDark ComedyWitty BanterFunny
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Smitten

Janet Evanovich · 256 pages

Single mom Lizabeth Kane isn't exactly carpenter material -- she's never picked up a hammer in her life. But she desperately needs the construction job that builder Matt Hallahan is offering. And even though he knows trouble is ahead, Matt can't refuse Lizbeth's irresistible smile. Matt Hallahan isn't exactly relationship material -- he has always been too busy working on other people's houses to

Single Parent ProtagonistRomantic ComedyFunnyWitty Banter
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Spotless

Camilla Monk · 318 pages

AssassinsRomantic ComedyWitty BanterSeries Starter
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Slightly Single

Wendy Markham · 288 pages

Romantic ComedyWitty BanterFirst Person NarratorFunny
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Assassin Next Door

Eve Langlais · 325 pages

AssassinsRomantic ComedyWitty BanterFunny
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Halfway to the Grave

Jeaniene Frost · 384 pages

Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father--the one responsible for ruining her mother's life. Then she's captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and is forced into an unholy partnership. In exchange for finding her father, Cat agrees to train with the sexy night stalker until her battle reflexes are as sharp

AssassinsWitty BanterFunnyFirst Person Narrator
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The Blacktongue Thief

Christopher Buehlman · 416 pages

Dark ComedyAssassinsWitty BanterFirst Person Narrator
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About a Boy

Nick Hornby · 288 pages

Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and b

Single Parent ProtagonistDark ComedyFunnyRomantic Comedy
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Romantic ComedyDark ComedyWitty BanterFunny
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All-American Girl

Meg Cabot · 288 pages

A sophomore girl stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed Teen Ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First Son.

Romantic ComedyWitty BanterFunnyFirst Person Narrator
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Midnight in Austenland

Shannon Hale · 288 pages

Single Parent ProtagonistRomantic ComedyWitty BanterFunny
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Hero at Large

Janet Evanovich, Steffie Hall · 229 pages

Hero at Large was the very first book published. It's about a sexy guy who cooks a potholder in spaghetti sauce and charms a single mom and former world-class ice skater with the promise of a ride on his Zamboni. It's got broken bones, giant turkeys, cantankerous cars, and Aunt Edna.

Single Parent ProtagonistRomantic ComedyWitty BanterFunny
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Clockwork Boys

T. Kingfisher · 230 pages

AssassinsDark ComedyWitty BanterFunny
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Undead and Unwed

MaryJanice Davidson · 277 pages

First Betsy Taylor loses her job, then she's killed in a car accident. But what really bites is that she can't seem to stay dead. And now her new friends have the ridiculous idea that Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen, and they want her help in overthrowing the most obnoxious power-hungry vampire in five centuries.

Romantic ComedyFunnyWitty BanterFirst Person Narrator
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Butcher & Blackbird: The Ruinous Love Trilogy

Brynne Weaver · 351 pages

Every serial killer needs a friend. Every game must have a winner. When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, the two find something elusive—the friendship of a like-minded, pitch-black soul. From small town West Virginia to upscale California, from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, o

Dark ComedyRomantic ComedyWitty BanterSeries Starter
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Miss Match

Erynn Mangum · 329 pages

Romantic ComedyWitty BanterFirst Person NarratorFunny
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Losing It

Cora Carmack

Romantic ComedyWitty BanterSeries StarterFirst Person Narrator
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How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf

Molly Harper · 386 pages

Even in Grundy, Alaska, it's unusual to find a naked guy with a bear trap clamped to his ankle on your porch. But when said guy turns into a wolf, recent southern transplant Mo Wenstein has no difficulty identifying the problem. Her surly neighbor Cooper Graham -- who has been openly critical of Mo's ability to adapt to life in Alaska -- has trouble of his own. Werewolf trouble. For Cooper, an

Romantic ComedyFunnyWitty BanterFirst Person Narrator
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Wallbanger

Alice Clayton · 320 pages

Thanks to paper-thin walls and the guy's athletic prowess, Caroline can hear not just her neighbor's bed banging against the wall but the ecstatic response of what seems like an endless parade of women. She finds her fantasies keep her awake even longer than the noise. So when the wallbanging threatens to literally bounce her out of bed, Caroline, clad in sexual frustration and a pink baby-doll ni

Romantic ComedyFunnyFirst Person NarratorWitty Banter

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