Beginning her writing career in YA and moving to adult romance, Kristina Forest has had us falling in love with her characters for years. Known for writing diverse representations for young women to relate to and uplift, these stories are sure to tug on your heart strings. If you are in search of humor, heart, and happily ever afters, look no further. Kristina Forest has the love story for you. We are especially excited that Felicia Pride’s Honey Chile Entertainment has acquired the film and television rights for The Greene Sister Series this past February and can’t wait to see them on our screens. 

The Greene Sisters Series 

The Neighbor Favor

Lily Greene has always strived for Black excellence, but she feels inadequate compared to the rest of her family. The shy and awkward bookworm dreams of being a children’s books editor but is stuck in a nonfiction job with no possibility of promotion. She finds relief and relaxation in messaging her favorite fantasy author. What began as a pair of lonely people swapping emails turns into a genuine friendship and maybe even more until he ghosts Lily without an explanation. Months later, Lily is trying to move on and find a date to her sister’s wedding. She finds help in her new handsome next door neighbor, Nick Brown, who is actually her favorite fantasy author. Nick keeps people at a distance with his pen name and his avoidant personality but soon realizes that his neighbor is none other than the girl he fell in love with through email. He doesn’t want to complicate things so he focuses on setting Lily up for her sister’s wedding even if the last thing he wants to see is someone else with his dream girl.  

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The Partner Plot

As a celebrity stylist, Violet Greene is extremely successful, traveling the world and doing what she loves. After a very public breakup six months ago, Violet is still recovering. Xavier Wright is a high school teacher and basketball coach who rarely leaves his hometown so what are the chances that he runs into his ex-girlfriend Violet, who he thought he was going to marry, while on vacation in Las Vegas. After their surprise fades, they decide to live it up in Vegas together, recklessly partying. Maybe a little too reckless… as they wake up together in bed, wearing wedding rings. Rather than rushing to an annulment, they both agree that their careers would benefit from being married. They decide to fake marital bliss but how long can you fake something that was once real?

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The Love Lyric

Iris Greene thought she had her life planned out. She met the love of her life at twenty-five, got pregnant, and got married, but all her plans went out the window when her husband unexpectedly passed away. Over the span of two years, she became a widowed mother. Now years later, Iris is raising six-year-old Calla on her own and working as the director of partnerships for a beauty company. In a moment of loneliness, she steps outside at her sister’s wedding, running into none other than Angel Hughes, a famous pop R&B singer. Though he might be successful on paper, Angel feels the hole in his love life. After scoring a brand ambassador deal with Save Face Beauty, he runs into Iris again, his stylist’s sister and the woman he’s been crushing on for years. Working together means they have to stay professional, but neither of them want to follow the rules and ignore their attraction for each other.

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More Kristina Forest

The Unrequited Love Department

Working in the Unrequited Love Department of Cupid & Associates, Joy is in charge of cataloging secret longings and unanswered letters. She believes in love even though she falls under the unrequited department herself. A heartbreak leads her to make the irrational decision to leak the secret contents of unrequited letters risking the privacy of people around the world and losing her job. Charles from the Solutions Department is cynical, refusing to believe in love after years of cleaning up other people’s romantic chaos. After being assigned to help Joy recover the letters she shared, Charles finds himself drawn to her in ways he didn’t expect. In witnessing love in all of its untidiness and passion, Joy and Charles’ fragile relationship is put under pressure.

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The Summer Girlfriend

Noelle Lewis doesn’t have time for normal college student activities this summer. Instead she is working her butt off trying to pay for her tuition. After being laid off from her bookstore job, Noelle is relying on her work as a “stand-in” bridesmaid but it isn’t enough. That is where Jeremiah Smith II comes in. As the heir to a well known sweet company, Jeremiah has lived a life of excess but he’s trying to get it together. He’s avoiding his family’s invitations to their summer house in New Jersey by claiming he has plans with his girlfriend. His family then tells him to bring her, but the problem is the girlfriend doesn’t exist. So Noelle and Jeremiah come to a mutually beneficial agreement. He will pay her to pretend to be his girlfriend for the weekend, but neither of them are expecting to enjoy the arrangement. Noelle is especially not expecting a warm welcome from Jeremiah’s loving family. What was meant to be a weekend has turned into the summer and might be turning into something more…

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Now That I Found You

At only eighteen, Evie Jones is rising up the ranks in Hollywood until a betrayal leaves her blacklisted. Luckily, Eva has the chance to save her career by stepping outside with her beloved grandmother and Hollywood icon, Evelyn Conaway, also known as Gigi. The problem is Gigi is a hermit who has stayed out of the limelight for decades. Evie will present her grandmother with an honorary award in front of Hollywood in just a few days, but then she disappears. With her reputation on the line and the clock ticking, Evie asks for help from the last person she wants to work with, Milo Williams, a musician that was the last person to see Gigi. As Evie and Milo search all over New York City, chaos and romance ensue alongside Evie uncovering more about her starlet grandmother and herself. 

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Heartsick

Margot Whitman is working as an intern at Healing Hearts Inc. during her senior year of high school. The company created an innovative pill that can heal a person’s heartbreak overnight. Margot gets to watch the marvelous healing while nursing her own broken heart. With college and their future careers calling, Margot and Isaac split. Margot could take a pill and rid herself of a broken heart but it doesn’t feel right to erase their past together. Isaac comes to Healing Hearts Inc. to mend his aching heart, but when he sees Margot at the front desk he realizes he doesn’t want to fall out of love with her. When they accidentally overhear a horrible secret about the pill, they must run and hide or risk being attacked by the shady executives and guards. Now they are on a mission to uncover the truth about this suddenly dangerous pill and maybe fix their heartbreaks the old fashioned way.

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