‘Once Upon A Trope’ is a fall-coded, ‘choose your own adventure’ rom-com with spice, sass, and heart.
Callie Lockhart owns Willow Creek's most popular romance bookstore, which means she’s familiar with all the best tropes. Unfortunately, she has experienced none of them in real life. And after one bad date too many, Callie tells her best friend Ben that she’s done.
Book boyfriends only from now on.
But when a stranger donates a mysterious gold hardback with blank pages, Callie’s luck begins to change. At the exact same time Ben ends up single and living in the apartment above Callie’s store, the mysterious book starts writing its own chapters.
It starts by asking Callie her name, but then it asks what she wants. She jokes that she wants a billionaire Scottish heart surgeon and, to her utter disbelief, one shows up the very next day.
Alasdair is charming, devoted, and everything she ever asked for. If he’s not, she just tells the book what she wants and it’s fixed.
So why can't she stop thinking about Ben? The guy who knows her coffee order, her worst dates, and her most embarassing moments.
‘Once Upon A Trope’ promises a happy ending. But with whom is completely up to you!
At the turning points of Callie's story, YOU choose what happens next. Door frame lean? Disastrous kiss? Spicy one-bed-only night in a hotel? The decisions are yours.
This cosy, laugh-out-loud magical romcom is about book boyfriends, choosing your happy ever after, and why real love never follows the script.
Cara Clare has written under both Cara and Poppy pen-names since 2022. She’s now bringing them together to write rom coms that blend the sweet and the spicy (with a dash of magic).
Genre: Romance
Callie Lockhart owns Willow Creek's most popular romance bookstore, which means she’s familiar with all the best tropes. Unfortunately, she has experienced none of them in real life. And after one bad date too many, Callie tells her best friend Ben that she’s done.
Book boyfriends only from now on.
But when a stranger donates a mysterious gold hardback with blank pages, Callie’s luck begins to change. At the exact same time Ben ends up single and living in the apartment above Callie’s store, the mysterious book starts writing its own chapters.
It starts by asking Callie her name, but then it asks what she wants. She jokes that she wants a billionaire Scottish heart surgeon and, to her utter disbelief, one shows up the very next day.
Alasdair is charming, devoted, and everything she ever asked for. If he’s not, she just tells the book what she wants and it’s fixed.
So why can't she stop thinking about Ben? The guy who knows her coffee order, her worst dates, and her most embarassing moments.
‘Once Upon A Trope’ promises a happy ending. But with whom is completely up to you!
At the turning points of Callie's story, YOU choose what happens next. Door frame lean? Disastrous kiss? Spicy one-bed-only night in a hotel? The decisions are yours.
This cosy, laugh-out-loud magical romcom is about book boyfriends, choosing your happy ever after, and why real love never follows the script.
Cara Clare has written under both Cara and Poppy pen-names since 2022. She’s now bringing them together to write rom coms that blend the sweet and the spicy (with a dash of magic).
Genre: Romance