Content Warning: This section of the guide features discussion of sexual content.

Stephanie Archer, who lives in Vancouver, Canada, built a TikTok following with food videos and book recommendations before she turned to writing contemporary romance. She bills her books as full of spice and banter, and her readers generally praise her romantic comedies as delivering a satisfying combination of sex and story.

Archer’s books rely on beloved tropes of the romance genre, and she organizes them as such on her author website. Her debut novel, That Kind of Guy (2021), incorporates the fake-dating and enemies-to-lovers tropes with its story of a mayoral candidate, Emmett Rhodes, who agrees to sign off on a restaurant loan for Avery, an ambitious young woman, if she agrees to date him to help his image. This book became the first in the Queen’s Cove series. Archer’s next book, The Heartbreak Rule (2022), is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance between Gemma, a rising comedian, and Reid, a friend’s ex-boyfriend.

The remaining books in Archer’s popular Queen’s Cove series share the setting of small-town Queen’s Cove and address the adventures of the Rhodes family. The Wrong Mr. Right (2022) incorporates the friends-to-lovers

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