How to buy:
Don’t forget, you can get it for less on my store in ebook. The book is delivered immediately by Bookfunnel, just like all my bonus epilogues, and you can read it on your favorite platform. Plus, I get to keep a little more cash from each sale.😁 You can also get it in paperback or even signed. And if you’re in the Atlanta area, come see me at Eagle Eye Books and get your copy signed on May 1!
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Brains – especially writer brains – are wonderful things. Sometimes books come to me in a flash, like my debut novel. I still remember walking into the office one day and having an uncomfortable feeling when the person ahead of me didn’t have a badge. I let them “tailgate” me and made sure they stopped at the security desk, but suddenly, a whole “undercover boss” situation formed in my imagination. That idea eventually became Work with Me.
Other books are more organic, especially when I’m in the middle of a series. I usually have characters I know pretty well, and I have to come up with a romance for them. That was the case for Conspiracies and Chemistry. I introduced Andrew’s sad-boy pal, Oliver, in Frenemies and Lovers.
Here’s a secret: in early drafts of that book, Oliver’s partner Simon was still alive and died during the story, sending Oliver spiraling into depression. But that subplot was too distracting to Andrew and Carly’s story, so I cut it, and Simon is already dead when Frenemies begins.
But you know about headcanon, right? I’d written Oliver through that painful period in his life, and it existed in my imagination (even though it was no longer on the page), so I desperately wanted to give him an HEA. And I’d created Tessa, a mysteriously wealthy woman with a painful past, one of the Goddess Gang destined for romance.
So there you have it: a man struggling with grief and how to run his business without his partner, and a successful woman who still feels guilty about a mistake she made when she was younger. Make her a redhead – Oliver’s kryptonite, it seems! – and Oliver and Tessa are two puzzle pieces that complete each other. (This always makes me think of “M-F-E-O” from Sleepless in Seattle!)
I am SO EXCITED to bring you Conspiracies and Chemistry at last. This one was a hard one to write (thank you, amazing book coach Cathy Yardley!), and I can’t wait for you to read Tessa and Oliver’s story. It’s got
- A woman who’s ashamed of her past and desperate for redemption
- A younger man who’s afraid of fucking up his future – and his company and employees
- A meet-cute over a tabletop roleplaying game (with costumes)
- A meet-disaster at a workplace in the San Francisco Peninsula
- A sexy encounter in the supply closet 🔥🔥🔥
- Men who are feminists
- Women who support each other
- And a just-one-bed-in-Vegas situation
You’ll swoon for this office romance!