Provoked

Provoked is a romantic comedy about what happens when chemistry shows up uninvited-and refuses to leave.
A weekend away is supposed to be easy: a lake house, a familiar group, too much food, too much wine, and the kind of harmless chaos that burns off by Sunday. But then she arrives. Madeline-sharp, funny, effortlessly magnetic-moves through the room like she's testing the limits of everyone's self-control. Especially his.
He's the calm one. The composed one. The man who doesn't bite when someone tries to get a rise out of him.
Until Maddy makes it her personal hobby.
It starts as a game: eye contact held half a second too long, compliments delivered like challenges, and a quiet tug-of-war fought in kitchens and hallways while everyone else laughs around them. He tells himself it's nothing. That he's immune to someone like her-someone who can turn a moment into a dare with a single look.
But the more she pushes, the more he notices. The more he notices, the harder it becomes to pretend he doesn't care.
And when a weekend of "banter" turns into something that feels dangerously real, they're left with an annoying problem neither of them planned for:
What if it's not the provocation that's addictive...
What if it's each other?
Provoked is a banter-heavy, dual-POV rom-com packed with cozy chaos, ridiculous misunderstandings, mutual pining, and the kind of tension that snaps-eventually-into something undeniable.