Falling Hard for the Royal Guard by Megan Clawson

Maggie has a boring job selling tickets with three awful coworkers at an amazing place – The Tower of London. Occasionally she has to take the day’s ticket sales to a safe in a basement that’s almost certainly haunted. Running out of the basement one evening, Maggie runs straight into what feels like a lamp post, but is really Freddie, one of the King’s Guards, holding a wooden box. It is not a meet cute moment, though it is memorable. One day when Maggie’s ex-boyfriend Bran shows up at the Tower to try to persuade her to take him back, Freddie frightens Bran away.

Maggie actually lives in the Tower of London, as her father is a Yeoman Warder. She meets Freddie’s mates, fellow Grenadier Guards. The guys overserve Maggie and persuade her to go on five dates through a popular dating app (though not with them). Most of the dates are pretty awful. Occasionally Maggie has a hangover after these dates and runs through the Tower grounds on her way to work, with her unruly red hair, clumsiness, and tendency to blush captured on security cameras, to her chagrin. I intensely disliked Maggie’s ex and her coworkers but really like her dad and the other Yeoman Warders and the Grenadier Guards. Fun fact: the author has red hair and lives in the Tower of London. Readalikes include Tourist Attraction by Sarah Morgenthaler and Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston.

Brenda