Soon, Eliza finds out that Elijah and her mother are fighting over Herman and Herman, the family’s cupid-for-hire business, which owes over thirteen thousand dollars to the California Department of Seduction. Discharged, he’s back and acting as a courier. Once close childhood friends, they had drifted apart in junior high, and after Jake enlisted in the Cupid Corps to aid war-torn areas, he fell out of Eliza’s life entirely. She’s known Jake, a fellow Cupid, since they were in elementary school. Jake’s gotten much cuter since she last saw him. On her way back from the hospital, Eliza runs into the handsome Jake Sanders, and realizes she’s in terrible trouble. When Elijah chooses to celebrate their shared birthday by bringing Eliza a piñata stuffed with condoms (a tribute to a traumatic childhood memory involving candy, vomit, and the birth of Eliza’s cupid powers) their father promptly has a heart attack and passes out into their birthday dinner. Even her anxious mother seems to find her clumsiness a nuisance. She’s otherwise extremely unpopular with others, especially when compared to her extremely popular twin brother Elijah. Naturally skilled with magical powers, Eliza instead runs around desperately trying not to get her bones broken or her skin sliced, a task which is complicated by her clumsiness and being mainly annoyed by her powers, which have cost her multiple jobs. For Eliza is a Cupid – a descendant of Eros with Erosian blood running through her veins – and she’s blessed and cursed with the ability to help anyone fall in love, with her or another person if she causes them a minor injury, (and vice-versa). It’s cutesy, cheesy, it clashes with her birthday – and it causes other effects to spark up and negatively affect her life. There’s nothing in the world Eliza Herman hates more than Valentine’s Day. Amanda Heger’s wildly charming Crazy Cupid Love is a wonderful, magical little fantasy romance in which fantasy creatures are real – and they’re looking for love.

Crazy Cupid Love by Amanda Heger