by Rachel Wood
First published 2026
Annie's terrible day starts when she loses her dream job at a New York City tech company. It gets worse when she learns her sister plans to marry the same awful man again. Annie refuses to let disaster win. She spots an opening on the data strategy team and decides to grab it, despite never having written code in her life. Connor, the interim department head, has serious doubts about her qualifications. Annie realizes his team of brilliant programmers lacks someone who can actually talk to people. She sets out to prove she's exactly what they need. The only problem is Connor himself, who manages to be both incredibly annoying and undeniably attractive. Meanwhile, Annie must survive her sister's second engagement party, especially tricky since Annie destroyed the first one. She has to master a job she knows nothing about, handle the growing tension with her new boss, and rescue her sister from another bad decision. Annie believes she excels at managing other people's lives. This time her interference might wreck everything she cares about most.
Genres: fiction, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, comedy, contemporary-romance
Vibes: character-driven, humorous, lighthearted, romantic-tension, witty
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fish-out-of-water, forced-proximity, slow-burn
Setting: New York City
Period: 21st-century
368 pages · Paperback · Dial Press Trade Paperback