Tangled

Drew Evans has been shut in his Manhattan apartment for a week, unshaven and miserable, telling everyone he has the flu. He does not. Drew is a wealthy, supremely confident investment banker who closes multimillion-dollar deals all day and goes home with a different woman at night.

Then Katherine Brooks arrives as the new associate at his father's investment banking firm. Kate is every bit as sharp and ambitious as Drew, so she is a rival he cannot wave off. She is also the first woman ever to turn him down, and he cannot stop thinking about it.

Their rivalry runs through late nights at the office and a fiercely contested account. Underneath it sits an attraction, and neither of them will admit to it first.

Drew narrates the whole book himself, in a snarky, unfiltered first-person voice that includes asides straight to the reader. It is a workplace romantic comedy with steamy scenes, and the first of four books in the Tangled series.

Drew is funny and badly behaved in equal measure. The book turns on whether a man who never wanted anything permanent can live without the one person who might change that.