Close Quarters

When her office burns down an editor must work together with the most infuriating man alive or risk the promotion she's been working her entire career for.

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Chielozonam 'Elo' Williams is doing great. All things considered.

It doesn't matter that the job she loves as editor at PerfectRomance, the publishing imprint she's been working at for the past five years has started to feel more like a chore these days. It doesn't matter that her judgemental father might be right about her wasting her life away by not using her full potential.

What really matters is getting her dream promotion and enjoying the prime years of her youth.

That is until the unthinkable happens.

After Elo's office building burns down overnight she's forced to share an office with the one person that makes her blood boil: Connor Price.

Archenemies since their days at college Connor makes getting under her skin an art form. He's brash and rude and irritates her like nobody else can with his scathing looks and contemptible behavior.

It's not long before they're locked in a battle of wits, neither willing to back down or give up.

When they have to work together to acquire a potentially lucrative manuscript, they are forced to put aside their long-standing animosity for an adventure that will blur the line between hate and desire until neither of them can tell where the fighting ends and the falling begins.

PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION meets ANYONE BUT YOU meets THE HATING GAME in this contemporary rom-com about resilience, self-discovery and two sworn enemies who can't tell the difference between wanting to kiss or kill each other.

An ONC 2026 story inspired by prompt 40.

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