The Enemy

June Broaden has held a grudge for twelve years. In high school, Ryan Henderson beat her at their running war of wits, and after graduation he left her with an almost kiss and nothing more. She now owns a successful donut shop in Charleston, and she intends to show him how little room he takes up in her thoughts.

Ryan returns to town for the wedding of their best friends, and he is not what June expected. He stays on through the wedding week, and his attention toward her starts to look sincere instead of like another move in an old game.

The book is a closed-door romantic comedy driven by rivals-to-lovers banter. It also draws on a reunion between two people with a high school crush, and the humor stays light throughout. The wedding week gives the story a compact timeline and keeps both of them in the same rooms.

It is the second book in the It Happened in Charleston series and works as a standalone. A revised and expanded edition came out in 2024.

June has to decide whether a feud this old still deserves her energy, or whether Ryan has earned a different answer.