Book: The Cupid Dilemma
Character Name: Addie Whitlock
How would you describe your family or your childhood?
As the oldest daughter of a basically-single dad, I learned quickly how to get things done. But I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’d do anything for my family. We’re close a close, supportive family just living our drama-free lives in a quaint Queens neighborhood. I even run a successful (except for this moment) wedding planning agency with my little sis and cousin.
And then there’s the other side of the family. My mother’s. Drama is all they do, and while I love them all (most of them) dearly, I have to be bribed and/or handcuffed and blindfolded to go to a family reunion. Portal sickness is no joke, and there’s no portal worse than the one to Olympus.
Did I not mention that I’m the daughter of Aphrodite? No? Good, forget you heard it.
Significant other?
Hahaha. Oh, you were serious? Uh…big no. Relationships and I do not mix.
Biggest challenge in relationships?
Normally, convincing my friends and family (especially my mother), that I’m perfectly content with my life without one. But lately…with this damn fauxmance agreement with my rockstar next-door neighbor the challenge comes in the form of constantly reminding myself the reasons I don’t do love. For some reason, when I’m in the presence of Phoenix, I need a lot of reminding.
Where do you live?
In a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, next-door to a frustratingly gorgeous drummer who doesn’t know the meaning of ‘quiet hours’. My walls have shoe marks from me throwing them against the wall.
Do you have any enemies?
Only if you count my traitorous heart (which I do). Thirty-two years I’ve been perfectly fine living the life as a single in New York, and now it decides that maybe it does want more. Gah!
How do you feel about the place where you are now? Is there something you are particularly attached to, or particularly repelled by, in this place?
Location-wise, I’m set. I love my city, my apartment building, and I have a probably unhealthy attachment to my job (it’s a first child thing), but I could do without this brewing social media shit-show and being outed as the Anti-Aphrodite.
Do you have children, pets, both, or neither?
I am a single mother to a night-blooming cactus and a three-headed puppy (Do-Rei-Mi) from Cerberus’s latest litter.
What do you do for a living?
I own Happily Ever Forever, a one-stop shop for both finding—and marrying—that one true love, with my sister, Max, and our cousin Bailey. We used to be the most sought-after event planning agency in the country, but a few event mishaps have our reputation on the chopping block. Desperate times call for desperate measures (remember how I mentioned that fauxmance with my rockstar neighbor?). Yeah, that’s pretty desperate.
Pet peeve?
People who continuously throw what they assume are famous movie quotes into real-life conversation, and then appear aghast when you have no idea what they’re talking about.
Greatest source of joy?
Work…and if that’s not an acceptable answer, I guess I won’t be accepted.
What do you do to entertain yourself or have fun?
Watch true crime shows and occasionally let myself be dragged out into a public space by my sister and cousin.
What is your greatest personal failing, in your view?
Probably not letting myself be open to new experiences…but don’t tell anyone I admitted that or I’ll deny it!
What keeps you awake at night?
My next-door neighbor who has zero regards for quiet time hours.
What is the most pressing problem you have at the moment?
This fauxmance…it seemed a good idea at the time. A few public dates, a few pictures taken to prove that I’m not anti-my mother. In return, Phoenix—who is convinced I’m in muse—gets his music-writing mojo back. I mean, it all seems to be working…but maybe a little too well. Spending so much time with Phoenix Cross and I’ve started wondering…about things.
Like, does love actually exist?
A Novel
In the new paranormal romance from bestselling author April Asher, a down-on-her-luck wedding planner demigoddess and a Muse-less rockstar agree to a fauxmance that quickly turns anything but…
A lover of love and a champion for happily ever after. Those are two of many things people expect from Aphrodite’s daughter. To Adalyn Whitlock, ‘love’ pays the bills, and currently, not well. Business is dropping at Happily Ever Forever, with her latest wedding planning catastrophe ending in a negative social media storm and her sister Maxi’s matchmaking ability on the fritz. To top it off, there’s an ex-boyfriend calling her ‘the Anti-Aphrodite’ and paparazzi pics linking Addie to her new client’s older brother.
Phoenix "Nix" Cross—songwriter and drummer for the hot new band, The Stone Talons—is no saint, but he's far from the womanizer the band’s image rep bestowed on him. If anything, Nix is a romantic, hopeful he'll find a love like the one his parents share. With the band’s star quickly rising and the record label pressuring him to deliver their next hit, Nix’s writer’s block couldn’t have come at a worse time. But when he opens his door to his irate new next-door neighbor, Nix feels the brief flash of inspiration for the first time in ages. And it just so happens that his new Muse is none other than his little sister’s new wedding planner.
With Addie needing an end to her public-relations nightmare and the record label breathing down Nix’s neck, the pair agree to a fauxmance. But what happens when the emotions turned on for the cameras don't turn off?
Romance Paranormal [ St. Martin's Griffin, On Sale: May 12, 2026, Trade Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781250357885 / eISBN: 9781250357892 ]
April Asher, aka April Hunt, was hooked on romantic stories from the time she first snuck a bodice-ripper romance out from her mom's bedside table. She now lives out her own happily-ever-after with her college-sweetheart husband, their two children, and a cat who thinks she's more dog—and human—than feline. By day, April dons dark blue nursing scrubs and drinks way too much caffeine. By night, she still consumes too much caffeine, but she does it with a laptop in hand, and from her favorite side of the couch.
From the far left cushion, April Asher pens laugh-out-loud romantic comedies with a paranormal twist, but when she’s not putting her characters into embarrassing situations with supernatural entities, she also writes high-octane romantic suspense as April Hunt, her thrill-seeking alter ego.
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