Egomaniac

Emerie Rose is a psychologist who has just lost her savings to a con artist. He took her money to rent her a Park Avenue office that was never his to lease. She is still in the space, deposit gone and uninsured, when its real occupant arrives.

Drew Jagger is a divorce attorney, cold and arrogant, and the office is his. He earns his living ending marriages. She spends her days trying to keep couples together, so the two start out on opposite sides of the question of love.

With Emerie searching for another office, the pair end up sharing the space and working side by side. Their exchanges are sharp and funny, and the barbs gradually turn into an attraction that neither of them wants to put a name to.

This standalone contemporary romance first appeared in January 2017. Comedy carries much of it, the tension between the leads runs steamy, and the attraction builds slowly.

It earned a 2017 Audie Award nomination in the Erotica category, and it took the Australian Romance Readers Award for Erotic Romance the same year. The question is whether two people who disagree about marriage can keep trading insults once they care.