Falling in love doesn't cancel everything else

Tiffy and Leon share a flat and a bed on separate schedules, getting to know each other through notes. The unusual arrangement gives this courtship its humor, while demanding jobs and a controlling former partner complicate life at home.

A literary agent's holiday with her sister brings repeated encounters with an exacting editor. Their verbal sparring anchors a romance in which professional ambition and loyalty to family matter as much as attraction.

Two neighboring writers swap genres in a wager to break their creative blocks. Arguments about fiction become personal as research and family histories complicate their ideas about love, giving the romance more weight than its holiday setting suggests.

An autistic economist hires an escort to make physical intimacy less uncertain, then develops feelings the arrangement cannot neatly contain. Conversations about comfort and desire give this romance its particular focus on individual needs.

Eve's search for steady work brings her into conflict with an exacting bed-and-breakfast owner. Daily tasks and clashing habits fuel the comedy as attraction develops alongside questions about independence, autism, and other people's expectations of adulthood.

A president's son and a British prince stage a friendship after a public quarrel, only to fall for each other in private. Their romance places family obligations and political image directly in the path of intimacy.