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From time to time, as I've transcribed romance novel summaries into the generator, I've come across ones which merited a brief comment. For example, there's Wedding Cake Wishes by Dana Corbit:

To save his mother's business, rugged outdoorsman Logan Warren has to learn about wedding cakes and keeping customers. A confirmed bachelor, he can barely handle the brides that come in wanting buttercream this and frosted that. Yet when family friend Caroline Scott offers to help out, Logan isn't relieved. Caroline is his polar opposite. He's motorcycles and wildlife--she's business suits and ledgers. The one thing they have in common?

At which point, my inner Crow T. Robot promptly suggested "// Neither of them can cook?"

Then I got onto Mountains Apart by Carol Ross...

Winning this battle could mean losing it all.

San Diego workaholic Emily Hollings doesn't eat fish, doesn't wear flannel shirts and certainly doesn't fraternize with the enemy. So why is she finding herself charmed by Rankins, Alaska—her company's next development target—and the leader of its hostile opposition // ... as opposed to the leader of its favourable opposition?

, Bering James?

She must be more burned-out than she thought. Her professional reserve is slipping. And she's starting to fantasize about a life beyond work… a life like Bering has here. Maybe they can put their professional differences aside and explore this… friendship. Or maybe she's just deluding herself. // A Mills and Boon heroine deluding herself? Say it ain't so.
Because one of them has to win.

Anyway, I fed it into the generator's ravenous maw:

207) Mountains Apart by Carol Ross
Winning this battle could mean losing it all.
San Diego workaholic Servalan doesn't eat fish, doesn't wear flannel shirts and certainly doesn't fraternize with the enemy. So why is she finding herself charmed by Rankins, Alaska — her company's next development target — and the leader of its hostile opposition, Kerr Avon?
She must be more burned-out than she thought. Her professional reserve is slipping. And she's starting to fantasize about a life beyond work… a life like Kerr has here. Maybe they can put their professional differences aside and explore this… friendship. Or maybe she's just deluding herself. Because one of them has to win.

Servalan as a ruthless property developer sounds like a reasonable B7 AU, but the mental image of her in a flannel shirt made me think: "Deep down, Servalan never really wanted to be a galactic tyrant. She always wanted to be... a lumberjack!" [Cue chorus]
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