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Formula for Lust: A Rivals to Lovers Romance (Excelling @ Love Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Amelia Simone (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.2 26 ratings

Book 2 of 5: Excelling @ Love

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A man pining for his rival.
A woman dying to walk on the wild side.
A match made in… Vegas?

Sidney Culver:
Loathing Nate Cummings comes naturally for me. The bad boy hacker has no idea the sacrifice involved in running our department. I’ve worked too hard to become the favorite for department chair. He thinks he can just waltz in and beat me? I don’t think so.

Nate Cummings:
I admit I’ve made mistakes when it comes to Sidney Culver. Co-chairing our department dinner and beating her at her own game was the only way to win her respect. I certainly didn’t want her to know the real reason I moved home. But now that we’re in Vegas together, maybe she’ll finally see me as more than a bad boy hacker?

When their competition for the same job sends them crashing back to earth, can Nate turn their Las Vegas fling into the real thing?

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Alternately steamy, nerdy, and sweet, the Excelling @ Love Series follows a group of strong women as they find love in their small college town. Filled with feel-good romance, found family, and flirty banter, the Excelling @ Love books are happy hour for the soul.

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	Formula for Love	Formula for L	Formula for Seduction	Formula for Redemption	Formula for Devotion
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Sid is going to beat Nate, if it's the last thing she does. But when her department chair matches her with her rival to plan their annual fundraising dinner, she gets a peek behind Nate's golden-boy façade. She learns there's a lot more to Nate than she realized.

Caught up in grief after the death of his parents, Nate is consumed with taking care of his little sister. Needling Sid is the only relief in his otherwise drab world. So he seizes the chance to live it up a little in Vegas, especially if it means an opportunity to kiss the department's own Princess Perfect.

I hope you'll enjoy watching Sid learn that letting Nate under her armor is worth exposing vulnerability if it means finding love.

This book is for you if you like:

Rivals to lovers

Las Vegas flings

Precocious little sisters

Witty banter

Open door romance

College campus setting

Happily ever after

Feel-good, funny romance

A relatively quick read

As always, you can find content notes on my website for Formula for Lust. Happy reading!

About the Author

What drew you to writing?
I love reading quirky, nerdy real-life romances and seeing people become their best selves as they learn and grow together. Character-driven books with realistic flaws always captivated me and made me want to create more.

How do you find inspiration for your books?
TV and movie archetypes and fantasy pairings of them keep me endlessly entertained. I love humor and banter in my TV, and you'll find easter eggs leading back to some of my favorite shows in my books. I enjoy the energy of shows like Ted Lasso, Psych, and Schitt's Creek. Relatable and ridiculously fun.

What makes your voice unique?
My books are full of snarky family and flirty banter between love interests. I adore humor and showcasing how important supporting relationships are for all of us. When we're in our feelings and struggling, we can be thankful for friends and family to help us through the lows and celebrate the highs.

Who are your author influences?
I'm an old-school romance reader, starting with Harlequin, Jayne Ann Krentz, and Nora Roberts in my teens. As an adult, I've read everything Ilona Andrews has written. I love strong women, snarky humor, and lovers that make good partners.

Name one thing every Amelia Simone book has.
Wooing with food! I love a man who knows his way around the stove. Someone is always a pro in the kitchen in my stories and shows their love through cooking. I share a lot of my family's recipes with my newsletter subscribers, because they are just as delicious in real life.

Tropes that make you one-click?
Friends to lovers. Le sigh. Rivals to lovers and the variations of that: enemies to lovers and schemers to lovers. Also, I love a good matchmaking, heist, or betting subplot!

Sweet or spicy?
BOTH! In my books and in food. My books are all open door and steamy, but light and funny, with love interests who treat each other with kindness.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09QXQG27J
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 22, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4691 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 246 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #55,493 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,375 in Romantic Comedy (Kindle Store)
- #2,928 in Romantic Comedy (Books)
- #3,117 in Contemporary Romance Fiction

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Amelia Simone is the author of flirty, fun romances set in the Pacific Northwest, including Forbidden Flame (Book 1 of the Campfire Council Series), Formula for Love (Book 1 of the Excelling @ Love Series), and Mister Romance (Book 1 of the Self-Made Series.)

On sunny days, you can find her lounging on her deck, sipping coffee and working on her latest book. She specializes in writing lighthearted, hopeful romances that feature relatable, everyday characters who are looking for love. She's a firm believer in writing dessert books with plenty of sweet, flirty banter and teasing. Her goal is to deliver stories that give you a serotonin boost and leave you with a smile.

When she's not writing, she's wrangling her kiddos, indulging in food and wine adventures with her better half, or out back trying to revive her garden. (Hey, sometimes things die, it's fine.)

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SutjaK

Good fun

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2023

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Someone has found a great formula for rom-com. A book full of great characters, good banter, spice and romance.
Overall feel-good read.

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J. Allen

Book 2 - can be standalone

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2024

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Book 2 in Simone's Excelling @ Love series and can be read as a standalone. Sydney Culver and Nate Cummings are our main characters, and we got a taste of their characters from book 1 but here we see their work dynamic and how they constantly try to one up each other. I love their dynamic and the growth as the storyline progresses. Fun and sweet, this romance was delightful to read! So glad to have had the opportunity to read and review and I can't wait for more!

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2022

Nate and Sid appear to be work rivals at face value. When they’re paired together for a project they find they don’t know anything about each other and like what they’re learning.

This was a sweet romance that reads really fast. The characters are well developed and the dialogue is realistic. I didn’t find it to be too steamy and could have done with a little more heat.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

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Crys Joy

The mysterious bad boy comes to play

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2022

I really enjoyed this book. How could I not enjoy it? Nate for one, is my main reason for loving this book. He was that mysterious bad boy that everyone made/had assumptions of his past. However, once you get to know his character, you also find out how lovin, caring, and family oriented he is.

It was interesting reading about Sid. In the first book, I had pictured her differently then how she is portrayed in this book. And I liked book #2 Sid, probably because we learn her background on why she is the way she is, serious and professional. Although she was a bit reserved, I like how her personality opened up to Nate and also how she is with her group of friends.

There is a glimpse of the DEF CON event that is held in Las Vegas. It sounded amazing and very interesting. It is also where our characters really reveal their true feelings for each other and somewhat don’t really hold back. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas? Maybe, or maybe not…

Besides that, this is book #2 of the Excelling @ Love series. It’s a standalone book, but I liked reading the first because you see a glimpse of these characters and also there are cameos in this book.

I received an ARC and I am leaving a review voluntarily.

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Mindy H

Fun read

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2022

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He calls her Princess Perfect, she calls Peter Pan. She's totally professional and he's the definition of fun but when the curtain is pulled back his true self is seen. Two opposites, quirky friends and chemistry make the an entertaining read.
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Ann Tosti

I loved getting to know these characters!

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2022

There's hints of tension between the two main characters of this book in the previous one, but we didn't really get to see who Nate is. And he is a great character. It isn't easy for Sid to let go and enjoy a relationship with him, but it is wonderful to see her realize what's important to her and what's she's willing to do for it. This was a wonderful read. It can be read as a standalone, but it's also wonderful to add on to the previous story, getting to know characters more and even new ones that lead to the next book.

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Alina de Teresa

Enjoyable!

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2022

I've read two of this author's novels, first the Formula for Love and now the Formula for Lust. I found both of them just ok, although I did enjoy the Formula for Lust more. There is nothing bad about the book, it is well written and it flows easily but I just found it kind of bland. I felt like the characters thoughts and actions were disconnected at time. So it was an enjoyable read but certainly not memorable.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2022

This was a fun read. Quick but fun. I finished it in one sitting. It was predictable but didn’t stop me from enjoying the book. Definitely a recommendation from me.

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