Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    More to Love: A Curvy Contemporary Romcom
    More to Love: A Curvy Contemporary Romcom
    More to Love: A Curvy Contemporary Romcom
    Ebook79 pages1 hour

    More to Love: A Curvy Contemporary Romcom

    By Wendy Dalrymple

    4/5

    ()

    Switch to audiobook
    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Corrine Dawes has been plus-size all of her adult life; but as Cori D, celebrity stylist and social media influencer, her shape has only been a point of pride and an advantage. Cori doesn’t have a hard time when it comes to finding love (in fact, she juggles a few too many boyfriends sometimes), but there is one guy in particular that’s been nothing but a thorn in her side.
    Sean Montgomery is a personal trainer, fitness fanatic, and a sucker for big dogs. To him, missing leg day or eating sugar is a sin, and staying fit and healthy is his top priority. Even though Sean knows he looks good, he isn’t working out obsessively for vanity, but for another reason altogether.
    When neighbors Cori and Sean start a feud over a misplaced package, misunderstandings happen, sparks fly, and comedy ensues. Appearances are deceiving in this enemies-to-lovers rom-com that shows that the only size that matters when it comes to love is the size of your heart.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBryant Street Shorts
    Release dateJul 31, 2020
    ISBN9781094413129
    Author

    Wendy Dalrymple

    Wendy Dalrymple crafts highly consumable, short and sweet romances inspired by everyday people. When she’s not writing happily-ever-afters, you can find her camping with her family, painting (bad) wall art, and trying to grow as many pineapples as possible. Keep up with Wendy at www.wendydalrymple.com!

    Read more from Wendy Dalrymple

    Related to More to Love

    Related ebooks

    Contemporary Romance For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Losing The Plot

      Jun 19, 2022

      Our bathroom had dark-blue wallpaper with birds and flowers on it, like the wallpaper in an English country house. The paintwork was putty-coloured, with a putty-coloured bath shelf that Dad had built for Mum. As well as room for Mum’s mug of Nescafé

      9 min read

    • Article

      The End of Minimalism

      Jun 8, 2020

      Keeping a cluttered house has long been considered a little tacky, a little weak. But now it’s looking very wise.

      6 min read

    • Article

      A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020

      Oct 20, 2021

      Little, Brown £20 Throughout his twenties and well into his thirties, David Sedaris was an embarrassment to his family. He was always on the move, dropping in and out of college and flirting with hard drugs, as he drifted from one odd job to the next

      3 min read

    • Article

      Frost FAIR

      Jan 18, 2023

      Frost FAIR
      11 min read

    • Article

      Echos

      Jan 10, 2019

      Before Corrine’s husband abandoned her in Berlin, he liked to say that her name reminded him of the word “corrupt.” But ending in a twist rather than a split. Her last name was the French word for “swimsuit” but he never mentioned that. This seemed s

      17 min read

    • Article

      Famous People

      Mar 1, 2022

      Famous People
      15 min read

    • Article

      Manhattan, 2035

      Mar 26, 2021

      There were problems with being the daughter of a former it girl. First of all, the designation, which, as her mother grew older, warped slightly across the society pages, affecting her mood. Most people remembered her mother’s modelling stints, brush

      4 min read

    • Article

      Everything But The Kitchen Sink

      Oct 10, 2021

      When Mary Little walks into her kitchen on Tuesday morning, the sink is under the window. At first she can’t even find it. She looks at the space where the sink is supposed to be, at the end of the island, and the sink is gone. Her son, Ben, sits the

      18 min read

    • Article

      Yohanca Delgado

      Mar 9, 2021

      The widow arrived at LaGuardia on a Sunday, but the rumors about the woman who had rented a big apartment, sight unseen, had taken an earlier flight. We had already reviewed, on many occasions and in hushed tones, in the quiet that comes after long h

      15 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Sep 14, 2023

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      Australia Reads At Home

      May 18, 2020

      Australia Reads At Home
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Art of Poetry No. 105

      Jun 15, 2019

      The Art of Poetry No. 105
      26 min read

    • Article

      Human Contact

      Aug 10, 2022

      Beer tasted like wet money—or maybe just bad beer did. Viola had never tried any other kind. She preferred white wine, but there was no white wine at this party. “Drink it like medicine,” the guy manning the keg said. “It’ll loosen you up.” He wore a

      18 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Jul 1, 2023

      I The teenaged girl is searching for a placethat goes through, the holeto put the tampon inside. When she finds itshe asks her mother, Is this where the penis would go?Yes, her mother explains.Then I will never have sex. II Sweltering New York City.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Summer Beach Reads

      Jan 10, 2021

      Summer Beach Reads
      7 min read

    • Article

      In America

      Aug 8, 2019

      In America
      11 min read

    • Article

      Cycles

      Nov 10, 2022

      His online profile was promising: good hair, straight teeth, college degree. And he was nice-looking too, in his photo anyway, standing on a clifftop with the sun rising over his welldefined, muscular shoulder. He was attractive enough, the kind of u

      18 min read

    • Article

      A Modern Romance

      May 5, 2022

      A Modern Romance
      11 min read

    • Article

      Announcing the Winners Of Our 100-WORD CONTEST

      Jul 17, 2021

      Eager to try your hand at the 100-word genre? Submit your best work – fiction or nonfiction – in just 100 words in our second annual 100-Word Contest, returning this fall. Bookmark writermag.com/contests for more information. BY ALICIA LUNA Today, I

      5 min read

    • Article

      A Christmas Memory

      Nov 1, 2018

      A Christmas Memory
      18 min read

    • Article

      My Best Friend

      Oct 1, 2020

      My Best Friend
      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for More to Love

    4/5

    55 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      That was sooooo cute. I really liked having a hero that needed a service dog for health reasons. You don't often see that in a romance.

      2 people found this helpful

    Book preview

    More to Love - Wendy Dalrymple

    Chapter One

    Corinne Dawes closed her kitchen cabinets, took a sip of water from her Hydro Flask, and glanced around her new downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, condo. She had spent the first half of her day directing movers on where to place her bed, her couch, and her mid-century TV console, then she’d spent the other half of the day unpacking her few minimalist decorations and personal items. The condo was nearly twice as large as her last place in Los Angeles, and at less than half the rent, it felt like a real steal too. Everything in her new home was clean and pristine just like she preferred. A blank slate. A fresh start.

    Cori’s new building was located just two blocks from downtown in an area which, to her surprise, had changed a lot since she’d haunted its record stores and thrift shops as a teenager. Twenty years ago, downtown St. Petersburg was little more than a ghost town full of dive bars and dodgy diners. Now DTSP was home to one of the hottest real estate markets in Pinellas County with a craft brewery on every corner and a vegan taco stand on every other block. It would do. It would have to.

    Moving back home didn’t seem like it would work out for Cori at first. She had been gone for nearly fifteen years, after all — six in New York, nine in L.A. She didn’t know how or even if she would be able to readjust her lifestyle to fit back in; it wasn’t every celebrity stylist that could uproot themselves from the entertainment meccas and still make it in the biz, after all. But as Cori D, Instagram influencer and body-positive plus-size fashion stylist extraordinaire, Corinne could make up her own rules.

    Cori was well aware that if she hadn’t built up a loyal following, sought after by all of the Meghans and Angelinas and Serenas on the red carpet, she wouldn’t have been able to move back home and keep her high-profile job. She knew that she was privileged, but she still wanted people to know that she was down-to-earth too so she’d tried once or twice to convey a sense of humbleness to her followers through unstaged Instagram posts. However, her audience didn’t seem to want to see her authentic side. In the online world, perfection is everything.

    While Cori’s life in New York and L.A. had been pretty glamorous by most measures, the reason she’d decided to come home to Florida was far from it. The truth was that her mother’s dementia and other health problems had progressed to the point where her sister Michelle couldn’t manage their mother by herself anymore. Michelle had three kids and a full-time job, and their mother’s care had become a handful on its own. Right now, moving back to St. Pete to give her sister a little relief was the best that Cori could do. They were all having to take it one day at a time.

    A knock on the door snapped Cori out of her train of thought, and a little yelp of surprise escaped her lips. She startled at the sound, spitting water all down the front of her white cotton tank. Cori dabbed at her front and groaned as she moved to answer the door, hoping that she didn’t look like she had just come from a wet T-shirt contest.

    I bet it’s the production samples from House LaRue, she thought.

    Even though she would be saving on living expenses being back home, Cori still needed to keep up her social posts and preview samples for clients. Even a week away from creating content could mean lost followers and lost revenue. Cori congratulated herself for being smart enough to have her packages forwarded to her new address in time for her arrival.

    Just as Cori had suspected, a small brown package was sitting on her doorstep. A warm, tropical wind blew through the breezeway of her third-floor walk-up, making her boho maxi skirt twirl around her knees. The skirt was constructed with forgiving fabric and a floaty silhouette that made the ankle-length piece one of her wardrobe staples. She had an entire capsule collection of similar everyday pieces designed to make her feel effortlessly chic and comfortable all at once.

    Cori gathered the fabric of her skirt up, bent down, and brought the package back into her home. She began to open the box absentmindedly, eager to get her hands on the bamboo-blend pieces she knew would be packed within. To her surprise, instead of a casual jersey dress, she pulled out a package of brown sticks.

    I didn’t order this, she thought, her eyebrows meeting in a furrow of confusion.

    It was only then that she finally looked at the shipping label on the package.

    Sean Montgomery

    #302 3rd Avenue South

    St. Petersburg, FL

    Ugh.

    Cori went back out onto the landing, package in hand, and glanced at the number on her own front door, just to see if she was going crazy.

    300.

    Directly across from her apartment, in the same stylish Helvetica font, was 302.

    Well, this is embarrassing, she thought. Cori took three confident steps across the hall with the opened package under her arm and approached her neighbor’s door. She knocked three times and was immediately met with a very loud, very menacing sounding bark.

    Quiet, Brutus! a deep, muffled voice ordered from the other side. The barking stopped as she heard the click of the deadbolt. Cori did a double blink and had to keep her bottom lip from gaping open wide as she saw just who was on the other side of the door.

    Yeah? her neighbor at 302 said. He leaned against his door frame, supporting himself with one very defined, very muscular

    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1