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????? "Great Banter, Hot Love Scenes, Adult Angst and a HEA!"Sexy Standalone about cheating on their jobs, not each other. Instant Connection, Smart, Steamy, Funny Contemporary RomanceTess & Alex are workaholics with chemistry so intense it makes them feel like they're cheating on their jobs when all they want to do is be with each other. But their pasts and schedules seem to always get in the way.
They've both carefully designed their lives so that there are no surprises, but life has a funny way of not listening to pre-set plans and schedules.  Tess is absolutely married to her job of writing happily ever afters. She loves everything about her committed relationship with words and books. The parameters of their relationship and Tess' life are cut and dry, black and white. And then Alex showed up with his gorgeous crooked smile and shaded everything gray, and now she doesn't know if she can ever turn the page back.
Words have always been Tess' salvation, but is it possible for her to find a happily ever after of her own? Alex is utterly addicted to this woman. Beautiful, beguiling, Tess is a drug taunting him to have one more hit. His life is a deep dive into projects with no regard for anything and anyone else. Work is all there is. Alex and his friends have built their podcast into a media empire, making a difference.
Being a political pundit is what he believes he was put on this earth to do. But what if he could love Tess the same way he loves his job? Alex believes Tess is his perfect woman, but he just doesn't have the luxury of falling for her. Sleeping with her, absolutely. But he doesn't believe he has the bandwidth for love. Fate sees it a little differently.  They could have a once-in-a-lifetime love if only their schedules overlapped.
They're going to have to give up their carefully curated control, or they could lose everything.