Warm
Victoria Lavine · 2026
Gracie Holland can plan the perfect Happily Ever After—unless it’s her own. After a soul-flattening breakup, she’s rebuilt her life planning weddings at Larkwood—an ivy-covered Rhode Island estate where she lives in the staff cottage (and only occasionally cries herself into a blanket burrito). But when her beloved boss passes away and leaves the estate to her grandson, Gracie suddenly finds herself pitted against a love-allergic divorce lawyer determined to sell Larkwood by summer’s end—even if it means crushing his grandmother’s legacy and everyone’s jobs beneath his polished wingtips.
As someone who cleans up romantic disasters for a living, Jude Larkwood has no intention of keeping the estate as a wedding venue, no matter how much he loved his Nana. Selling it is critical for reasons he can’t discuss, but there’s just one problem: his Nana inexplicably left the guest cottage to the estate’s maddeningly romantic wedding planner, who has somehow turned his mind into her permanent residence.
So, when Gracie proposes that he help her plan her ex’s shotgun wedding to prove Larkwood is worth saving, he agrees—on one condition. If she fails to convince him by the big day, she’ll sell him her cottage.
But as bickering and cake tastings turn into late-night confessions, Gracie and Jude find themselves breaking every vow not to fall for each other. After all, opposites may attract—but can a hopeless romantic and a professional cynic really say “I do” to their own love story?
If you love contemporary with enemies to lovers, rom com, wedding setting, you love a book that makes you laugh out loud, then Not that Kind of Proposal by Victoria Lavine is the book for you.
This book contains themes of: grief, death of a loved one.
These warnings are provided to help readers make informed choices about what they read. They may contain mild spoilers.
Not that Kind of Proposal by Victoria Lavine has a spice level of 3/5 (warm — some steamy scenes).
Yes, Not that Kind of Proposal by Victoria Lavine is a standalone novel.
Not that Kind of Proposal features these tropes: enemies to lovers, rom com, wedding setting, forced proximity, he falls first, grumpy x sunshine, slow burn.
Not that Kind of Proposal by Victoria Lavine is a Contemporary novel.
Yes. Not that Kind of Proposal contains themes of: grief, death of a loved one. These warnings are provided to help readers make informed choices.
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