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July 21, 2023 23 mins

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TO HAVE AND TO HEIST: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

👋 Helloooo swoon squad!
Welcome to While You Were Reading — a podcast for contemporary romance readers.
I’m your host, best-selling rom-com author Lisa Daily — and every week, I'm bringing you the best contemporary romance novels of 2023. Today on While You Were Reading, we’ll be talking TO HAVE AND TO HEIST with rom-com rock star Sara Desai.

Sara has been a lawyer, radio DJ, marathon runner, historian, bouncer and librarian. She lives on Vancouver Island with her husband, kids and an assortment of forest creatures who think they are pets. Sara's diverse romantic comedy books have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, People, Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire, The Washington Post, Pop Sugar, Bustle, USA Today, Woman's World, Hello! Canada and many more. When not laughing at her own jokes, Sara can be found eating nachos.

TO HAVE AND TO HEIST: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Tropes for To Have and To Heist

🏠 Found family

🧲 Opposites attract

🕵🏻 Secret identity

🎁 Forced proximity

💗 Small town romance vibe

😇 Bad boy and good girl

Book Boyfriend Keeper Rating: 4.5 💍💍💍💍
Note: So many books, so little time! We only review 5-star books we 💗 LOVE💗 on While You Were Reading. The book boyfriend keeper rating is Lisa's ranking based on her experience as a former dating guru on whether or not she would personally date our hero in real life.  (If she were single, which she's not.) 😂💙  

📚 Episode TBR Pile:

To Have and To Heist by Sara Desai: https://books2read.com/ToHaveAndToHeist 

The Singles Table by Sara Desai: https://books2read.com/TheSinglesTable

The Dating Plan by Sara Desai: https://books2read.com/TheDatingPlan
The Marriage Game by Sara Desai: https://books2read.com/The-Marriage-Game

The Cutting Edge: A steamy hockey romantic comedy by Lisa Daily: https://books2read.com/CuttingEdge

Dating Dr. Dil: https://books2read.com/DatingDrDil

How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days: https://books2read.com/HowtoMarryKeanuReevesin90Days

True Love Experiment By Christina Lauren: https://books2read.com/TheTrueLoveExperiment


📖 About TO HAVE AND TO HEIST by Sara Desai
Simi Chopra is on a bad-luck streak. She’s lost yet another job, her student loan debt won’t stop growing, her basement apartment is a certifiable flood zone, and now her best friend has been accused of stealing a multimillion-dollar diamond necklace. To put it lightly, she’s desperate for a break—that’s right when Jack waltzes out of the bushes and into her life.

Jack is just as charming as he is mysterious. When he offers to help her find the missing necklace and steal it back, Simi jumps at the chance to clear her friend’s name and collect the substantial reward. But every good heist needs a crew. All she needs to do is transform a ragtag group of strangers into an elite heist crew, infiltrate a high-society wedding, and steal the necklace from a dangerous criminal before the happy couple say "I do." Meanwhile, the bride is keeping secrets, a detective with a slow-burn smile keeps showing up at her door, and the ultimate robbery might not be the wedding con, but the way Jack is stealing her heart.

📖 About The Cutting Edge: A steamy hockey romantic comedy by Lisa Daily

A laugh-out-loud hockey romantic comedy perfect for fans of Helena Hunting and Pippa Grant!

Logan Rivers is a star pro hockey player for the St. Pete Slashers -- and he's in a slump.

He hasn’t scored in 3 games and it’s starting to freak him out. Enter Coco, who strikes a deal with an assistant coach to be Logan's lucky charm to

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