The Love Lyric

Forest balances tenderness and heat in her captivating Greene Sisters series conclusion (after The Partner Plot). Recently widowed single mother Iris Greene devotes herself to motherhood and her job as director of partnerships at Save Face Beauty, a makeup company. Now the business is launching a new line and has chosen R&B star Angel Harrison as a celebrity brand ambassador. Angel, who employs Iris’s sister as his stylist, has been crushing on Iris for years, but worries that she’s not ready for a new relationship. When Iris is assigned to accompany Angel on a meet-and-greet tour, the pair are thrown into close quarters and their mutual attraction becomes too intense to ignore. Despite Iris’s hesitations about Angel’s celebrity lifestyle and involvement with her company, she agrees to date him if they keep things casual—though this proves easier said than done. Angel’s patience with Iris is heartwarming, and their undeniable chemistry leads to plenty of steamy and swoon-worthy scenes. Readers will have no trouble rooting for their happily ever after. Agent: Sara Crowe, Sara Crowe Literary. (Feb.)