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Ali Hazelwood
Italian neuroscientist and writer of romance novels.
Two Can Play
An enemies-to-lovers, spicy romance novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood. Video-game designer Viola Bowen is forced into close quarters with her infuriating co-lead, Jesse Andrews, at a snowed-in mountain-lodge retreat — and discovers there's more to her rival than she thought.
A video game designer who lands the chance to design a game based on her favorite book series.
Viola's office archnemesis and co-lead on the game project, and the novella's love interest.
No. Two Can Play is a standalone romance novella by Ali Hazelwood — it isn't connected to any of her other books or series.
It's a novella: the print/ebook edition runs 187 pages (Sphere paperback), and the audiobook, narrated by Kelsey Navarro Foster, is a quick listen at well under five hours.
Yes. It first released as a Spotify Audiobooks exclusive novella on October 1, 2024, before Berkley/Sphere published it in print and ebook on February 10, 2026, with a bonus chapter not in the original audio edition.