The Villain Edit
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Stephanie Németh-Parker
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Laurie Devore
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Emily Henry meets Fleabag...and The Bachelor! An irresistibly sharp and sexy dramedy about a cynical romance novelist who goes on a reality show to revive her career, only to discover that while she may have just met the love of her life, the producers have turned her into the show’s villain.
“The perfect beach read…a real page-turner. Don’t be surprised if you finish it in one day!”—In Touch Magazine
“Fun and frothy... endlessly entertaining.”—Glamour
Good villains make good TV.
Romance novelist Jacqueline Matthis’s big career has gone bust and she’s ditched the bright lights of New York City for her more affordable South Carolina hometown. Desperate, Jac dreams up a comeback plan—she is going to be a contestant on the 1, the most obsessively watched reality dating show in the world.
After all Jac is a romance writer—she knows how to pull off a meet-cute and create a spicy plotline.
On set, Jac quickly establishes herself as a front-runner for bachelor Marcus’s heart, but she’s shocked to discover who’s actually pulling the strings. How was she to know that Henry Foster, her last one-night stand before the show, was actually a longtime producer on the 1? Henry is just as horrified…but they can’t seem to keep their hands off each other.
As Jac plays the game and the show unfurls, she slowly discovers that she’s getting the villain edit. They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but as Jac’s secret plan begins crumbling around her, she’s not so sure. What happens if Marcus chooses her? Worse, what happens if her affair with Henry comes to light? What if, in trying to save her career, Jac has ruined her life?
Heartbreaking, smart, and sexy, this novel is for anyone who has ever secretly rooted for—or felt like—the villain.
“THE VILLAIN EDIT is perfect for people who, like me, love mess. I devoured it in one sitting and was left with a total book hangover—it’s the ideal combination of propulsive psychological thrill and delicious romantic tension.”—Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six
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Cole Kimball and Laila Olivet have been best friends their entire lives. Cole is the only person (apart from blood relatives) who's seen Laila in her oversized, pink, plastic Sophia Loren glasses. Laila is always the first person to taste test any new dish Cole creates in his family's restaurant . . . even though she has the refined palate of a kindergartener. Most importantly, Cole and Laila are always talking. About everything. When Cole discovers a betrayal from his recently deceased grandfather that shatters his world, staying in Adelaide Springs, Colorado, is suddenly unfathomable.
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A Slowburn Romance for the PG-rated Crowd
- By merle on 06-13-24
By: Bethany Turner
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King of Country
- By: C.W. Farnsworth
- Narrated by: Zachary Webber, Andi Arndt
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Piper Egan landed her dream job straight out of college—working at Empire Records. But instead of discovering new talent and changing lives, like she’d hoped, her time is spent taking meeting notes and catering to spoiled celebrities. When the chance to change that finally appears, she should be thrilled. Unfortunately, Piper’s promotion involves the charming cowboy she’s spent years attempting to avoid. And flying to middle of nowhere, Texas, in a desperate attempt to talk the king of country music into returning to the stage.
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Country music superstar
- By Kristin on 03-10-24
By: C.W. Farnsworth
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Some Doubt About It
- A Novel
- By: Marion McNabb
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Caroline Beckett is living the dream. A self-help guru with a glamorous clientele and a marriage to a handsome photographer, she’s proof women really can have it all. But one night leaves Caroline reeling, forcing her to reconsider everything she thought she knew about her life—and what (if any) business she has teaching anyone how to live theirs.
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no doubts
- By Gwen on 06-17-24
By: Marion McNabb
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Famous for a Living
- By: Melissa Ferguson
- Narrated by: Talon David
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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When her business partner is accused of serious financial crimes, superstar influencer Cat Cranwell—an engineered marvel of beauty, energy, and fun—falls from her penthouse perch. Desperate to get away from the online trolls and paparazzi documenting her disgrace, Cat accepts her uncle’s offer to work with him in Kannery National Park, Montana. About as far as possible from life as she’s known it.
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Short & Sweet
- By H. Divis on 07-28-23
By: Melissa Ferguson
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The False Flat
- By: Melissa Collings
- Narrated by: Alaska Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Penelope Auberge is at her breaking point. With an overbearing mother, a married boyfriend, and a boss who gives Pen’s high-profile finance clients to male colleagues, it feels like nothing she’s accomplished in her thirty-two years belongs to her. Determined to build a life entirely her own, Pen moves from Minnesota to Tennessee to open a solo financial business. There, she meets siblings Deanna and Grant, who attempt to coax Pen out of her socially anxious shell.
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My heart
- By Paige on 01-20-25
By: Melissa Collings
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The Tearsmith
- A Novel
- By: Erin Doom
- Narrated by: Alexandra Hunter
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
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Growing up in a ghastly orphanage run by an abusive matron, Nica coped in the only way she could—by retreating to her imagination, where she lived out fantastical stories, especially about the Tearsmith, the man who makes tears, a terrifying figure who forges all the fears that dwell in people’s hearts. When she’s finally taken in by an adoptive family at seventeen, Nica thinks she’s leaving the group home, its torments, and her prison of otherworldly tales behind her. That is, until Rigel—a young man raised from birth in the same dreadful orphanage—joins her new family.
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The ending stunk!
- By Anonymous User on 04-27-24
By: Erin Doom
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Dear Henry, Love Edith
- By: Becca Kinzer
- Narrated by: Cillian Crowe
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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After a short and difficult marriage, recently widowed Edith Sherman has learned her lesson. Forget love. Forget marriage. She plans to fill her thirties with adventure. As she awaits the final paperwork for a humanitarian trip to South Africa, she accepts a short-term nursing position in a small Midwestern town. The last thing she needs is a handsome local catching her eye. How inconvenient is that?
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A fun a funny romantic read!
- By C. Haggard on 04-09-24
By: Becca Kinzer
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The Letters We Keep
- A Novel
- By: Nisha Sharma
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani, Vikas Adam
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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It doesn’t take long for ambitious freshman and aspiring engineer Jessie Ahuja to learn about two university legends. One is the haunted history of Davidson Tower, where more than fifty years ago, two ill-fated lovers disappeared in a devastating fire. The other is Ravi Kumar, a privileged billionaire nepo baby who’s aggravatingly charming and occupying more brain space than Jessie has room for. Things change when a campus prank locks them both in the old tower’s ghostly library.
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Loved this story!
- By Tricia B on 05-06-24
By: Nisha Sharma
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Running Close to the Wind
- By: Alexandra Rowland
- Narrated by: Casey Jones
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Arasti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world—and the only place to flee with a secret that big is the open sea. To find a buyer with deep enough pockets, Avra must ask for help from his on-again, off-again ex, the pirate Captain Teveri az-Haffar. They are far from happy to see him, but together, they hatch a plan: take the information to the isolated pirate republic of the Isles of Lost Souls, fence it, profit.
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Funny but Hard to Follow
- By Elisabeth on 07-11-24
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Maya's Laws of Love
- By: Alina Khawaja
- Narrated by: Mayuri Bhandari
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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A bride-to-be convinced she’s cursed in romance finds her luck changing—at exactly the wrong time. Maya Mirza is so convinced she’s unlucky in love that she’s come up with a list of laws to explain it. Most importantly…
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Loved every minute
- By Kate Kinghorn Spurlock on 08-16-24
By: Alina Khawaja
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Love Me Today
- By: A.L. Jackson
- Narrated by: Joe Arden, Andi Arndt
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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I should have known I was in trouble when I backed my old, beat-up truck into the shiny Range Rover. The driver looked like a gorgeous fallen angel–one who’d been booted right out of paradise for being a giant prick. Good thing I’ll never have to see him again.
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.. ALWAYS A FIVE STAR PLEASURE AMY
- By CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 on 05-31-23
By: A.L. Jackson
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The Curious Secrets of Yesterday
- By: Namrata Patel
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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Raised by her mother and grandmother and tutored in the healing wonders of spices, Tulsi Gupta is expected to carry on the ancestral tradition from her family’s Salem spice shop. Restless and reluctant, Tulsi yearns to follow her own path—destiny has other plans. When Tulsi finds a letter written by her grandmother, addressed and never sent, that speaks of a long-ago betrayal, she decides to unravel the mystery as a distraction. But Tulsi stumbles into much more than she bargained for.
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loved it!
- By Paula Kerth on 11-27-24
By: Namrata Patel
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The Summer of Yes
- By: Courtney Walsh
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby, Cathi Colas
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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Sometimes you’re so busy writing other people’s stories that you can lose the plot of your own. This wasn’t how Kelsey Worthington’s day was supposed to go. She wasn’t supposed to be picking up Starbucks for her smarmy boss. She wasn’t supposed to get hit by a car that jumped the curb. And she certainly wasn’t supposed to wake up in a hospital room next to Georgina Tate—the legendary matriarch of New York City businesswomen.
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Cute wholesome story
- By Alicia on 01-08-25
By: Courtney Walsh
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- hera Mcleod
- 08-02-24
This was fantastic!!
This was such a hilarious book. As someone who loves to hate reality dating shows and loves quirky romance novels - this hit the spot.
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- Yvonne
- 12-20-24
This might be a new favorite
The story is great and the characters are well written. Jac is everything you’d want from a strong female lead. Intelligent, funny, flawed. Great book.
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- Alex
- 09-06-24
A fun read/listen
I read this for book club and enjoyed it enough. I’ve never watched The Bachelor/Bachelorette, but I fully believe it’s as heinous as The Villain Edit makes it sound. I found myself sometimes rooting for the main character, Jac, while also rolling my eyes or wincing at nearly all of her choices. Simultaneously, I feel like we don’t know her at all. I realize this could be intentional, but it left me feeling more interested in the other characters. I’d almost rather see a sequel or something about Henry.
Narration was good. Friends of mine read the book and I think I got more out of it by listening.
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- Amy G.
- 07-07-24
Bingeworthy
This one has it all for me. Interesting story, sharp wit, well-developed characters, sizzling chemistry. I actually read the ARC a while back and then picked up the audiobook. Loved the audiobook just as much as I loved the reading the hard copy.
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- Brenda C.
- 08-15-24
The Villain Edit, by Laurie Devore - A MUST READ!!
Hey Book Lovers! 📚✨
Just finished reading "The Villain Edit" by Laurie Devore, and I am absolutely buzzing to share my thoughts with you! 🥳 Seriously, if you're looking for your next great read, this should be at the top of your list.
First off, let’s talk about the CHARACTERS. OMG, they are so well-crafted that they practically leap off the pages! 😍 From the complex protagonist who's both flawed and relatable to side characters whose stories are just as riveting, Devore has created a cast you will either LOVE or LOVE TO HATE (and sometimes both at once!). Each character is full of depth and human imperfections, making them so REAL—they could literally be your next-door neighbor, your best friend, or... your worst enemy. 😉
Now, onto the setting... behind-the-scenes of a dating reality show! 🌟📺 Ever wondered what really goes down when the cameras aren't rolling? Devore pulls back the curtain, giving us an all-access pass into the drama, manipulations, and raw emotions that don't make it to our screens. The novel dives deep into the world of reality TV, revealing the editing tricks, producer plots, and contestant dilemmas that shape what we see on air. It’s like getting VIP access to all the JUICY GOSSIP! 🍿🤫
Lastly, let's talk about why this book deserves all the stars—5 out of 5, to be exact! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Besides being an unputdownable (yes, it's a word now 😉) read, "The Villain Edit" provides a critical commentary on how media shapes reality and perception. It's thought-provoking without being preachy and packed with twists that will leave you gasping for air. Every page is a rollercoaster ride that keeps you hooked from start to finish. 🎢📖
In conclusion, if you're a fan of rich characters, love a good peek behind the curtain, and enjoy a book that makes you think long after you've turned the last page—grab "The Villain Edit"! It's an engrossing, entertaining, and utterly compelling read that's worth every second of your time. Trust me, you won't regret diving into this gem.
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