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At First Spite by Olivia Dade

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All by My Elf, November 2024
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At First Spite, February 2024
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Ship Wrecked, November 2022
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All the Feels, November 2021
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Spoiler Alert, October 2020
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Ready to Fall, July 2016
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Mayday, May 2016
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My Reckless Valentine, January 2016
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Broken Resolutions, December 2015
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At First Spite
Olivia Dade

Harlot's Bay #1
Avon
February 2024
On Sale: February 13, 2024
400 pages
ISBN: 0063215918
EAN: 9780063215917
Kindle: B0BP2DCML3
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Romance Contemporary | Romance Comedy | Contemporary

Bestselling author Olivia Dade welcomes you to Harlot’s Bay in this delightfully sexy rom-com about a woman who buys the town's famous Spite House, only to realize the infuriating man she can't stand lives right next door—and their unwilling proximity might spark something neither can ignore.

When Athena Greydon’s fiancé ends their engagement, she has no choice but to move into the Spite House she recklessly bought him as a wedding gift. Which is a problem, for several reasons: The house, originally built as a brick middle finger to the neighbors, is only ten feet wide. Her ex’s home is literally attached to hers. And Dr. Matthew Vine the Freaking Third—AKA the uptight, judgy jerk who convinced his younger brother to leave her—is living on her other side, only a four-foot alley away.

If she has to see Matthew every time she looks out her windows, she might as well have some fun with the situation. By, say, playing erotic audiobooks at top volume with those windows open. A woman living in a Spite House is basically obligated to get petty payback however she can, right?

Unfortunately, loathing Matthew proves more difficult than anticipated. He helps her move. He listens. And he’s kind of…hot? Dammit.

Matthew may not regret ending his brother's engagement, but he does regret what the breakup has done to Athena. He'll help her however he can. If that means finding her work, fine. If that means enduring nightly steamy story hours, so be it. And if that means watching Athena through their windows a bit too often and caring about her a bit too much…well, nothing can come of it. She’ll never forgive him. Even if she did, how could he ever tell his beloved younger brother the truth—that Matthew wants the very same woman he encouraged Johnny to leave?

Harlot's Bay

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