Unapologetic Love Story
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"Sexy, funny, and fresh, with characters that leap off the page" - TALIA HIBBERT, New York Times bestselling author of Get a Life, Chloe Brown
He’s looking for a headline. She’s about to become his whole story . . .
Raina Lewis is at the top of her game. As the creator of a smash-hit podcast celebrating neurodivergent women, she’s taking the world by storm, and doesn’t need anything – or anyone – slowing her down.
Tom Branimir has a reputation for cynicism. As an investigative journalist, his career has been built on exposing anything that seems too good to be true - and now, he’s set his sights on Raina.
When Tom pitches Raina as the subject of his next project, she’s determined to keep him at arm’s length. But as their professional arrangement blurs into a sizzling romance, Raina faces a tough decision. Retreat to the safety of the hard-won life she’s built herself, or risk her heart for the unapologetic love she never planned for?
Big-hearted and bold, Unapologetic Love Story is the dazzling debut adult romance novel from bestselling author Elle McNicoll. For fans of Olivia Dade and Talia Hibbert.
Tropes:
- He falls first
- Grumpy x sunshine
- Found family
Elle McNicoll
Elle McNicoll is a bestselling and award-winning novelist and screenwriter. Her debut, A Kind of Spark, won the Blue Peter Book Award and the Overall Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, as well as Blackwell’s Book of 2020. She is a four time Carnegie nominated author, and was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Awards 2020, 2021 and 2022, the Branford Boase Award 2020 and The Little Rebels Award 2020 and 2021. She was also honoured in the US with the Schneider Award, 2022. Her second novel, Show Us Who You Are, was Blackwell’s Book of the Month and one of The Bookseller’s Best Books of 2021. Her first fantasy middle grade, Like a Charm, was nominated for Best Children’s Book for Older Readers in the first ever Week Junior Book Awards, and was highly praised in the New York Times. Her debut novel, A Kind of Spark, has also been adapted for television, is Emmy nominated and won Best Children’s Programme at the Broadcast Awards and a Royal Television Society Award. She is twice nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and the winner of the 2025 Books Are My Bag Young Adult Readers Award for Wish You Were Her. Her adult debut, Unapologetic Love Story, published in 2026.
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