Anne Kemp

Anne Kemp writes romantic comedies that favor close-knit communities, conversational humor, and characters learning to speak honestly about what they want. The Art of Falling in Love with Your Best Friend opens her Sweetkiss Creek series in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Dylan and Reid are best friends and coworkers whose mutual affection is complicated when Dylan tries to find Reid a girlfriend, believing that preserving their friendship matters more than acknowledging her own feelings. Published in 2023, the novel is presented as a sweet, closed-door contemporary romance and introduces a town that supports later books about enemies, neighbors, false engagements, and unexpected second chances. Kemp gives the friends-to-lovers structure an anxious emotional center: Dylan's doubts about her own adequacy become as important as the question of whether Reid returns her love. A small terrier named Max adds domestic comedy while the town setting keeps their private hesitation visible to a wider circle.