First published 2019
Elodie's morning starts with a fender bender and a street-side argument with a stranger who is handsome, arrogant, and entirely too sure of himself. She shakes it off and gets to her interview, the one that could put her back in the work she actually loves, caring for children. Then the interviewer sits down. It is the same man. Hollis LaCroix lives on Park Avenue and carries himself like he owns more than that. He does not hire her. She comes back and asks again anyway. He gives her the position, looking after his niece Hailey, a girl with her own complications. Elodie and Hailey find their rhythm quickly. Hollis is harder to ignore. The two of them flirt, pull back, and find small ways to let off pressure without crossing the line they both know is there. The line shifts anyway. Elodie can count exactly what she has to lose: her job, the relationship she has built with Hailey, and her own stability. Hollis is not a man who gives much away. The story moves like it is heading somewhere familiar, then takes a turn neither of them anticipated. This is a romance about how much you are willing to put on the line for something you want badly.
Genres: fiction, romance, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: character-driven, emotional, intimate, tension-filled, witty
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, slow-burn, workplace-romance
Setting: Park Avenue, New York
300 pages · Paperback · Independently published