The Year I Hated You
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The one thing in life Josie has always believed in is Happily Ever After. That is, for everyone but herself. At twenty-four, working a junior-level position at the largest tech firm in New York City, Josie spends less time stumbling into her own meet-cute and more time reading about them, her nose stuck in any HEA romance novel she can get her hands on. But when Finneas Stratton, the boy across the street she has known since childhood, takes it upon himself to embarrass her in front of all their colleagues at MidasTech, Josie shelves the friends to lovers plotline and begins to settle into a villain origin story of her own.
It's been almost an entire year of hating Finn, but as the holiday comes to a close, and the two find themselves treading the thin line between love and loathing, can Josie keep the resolution she made to herself? Or will the countdown into the New Year change everything between them for good?
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