Lee Stone, Stoner to her friends, is on a personal mission to protect the environment, address climate change, and do it starting right there in her home state of Texas. With a master’s degree in environmental policy, she’s the communications director for the woman-led electric car company, Lise Motors, in the capital city of Austin. Her current project is to get a significant environmental bill passed through the state senate in the upcoming legislative session. With a progressive Republican governor in office who strongly supports the bill, the timing couldn’t be better. The governor has even hired a new staffer specifically to champion the bill and be the liaison between Lee and his administration.
Ben Laderman, formerly a corporate attorney for Google, has returned to his home state of Texas to accept his dream job as a special assistant to Governor Grover Mane. Ben, a Democrat, is elated to join his staff and work from the inside to turn Texas blue. His first assignment is to work with Lise Motors’ communications director to campaign for the support of the governor’s pet legislation, the environmental bill known as “The Green Machine.” There’s just one catch: Lee Stone is his former girlfriend: the one that cheated on him with his law school rival, broke his heart, and set him running to California to escape his grief and heartbreak.
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Lee Stone is a twenty-first-century woman: she kicks butt at her job as a communications director at a women-run electric car company (that’s better than Tesla, thank you), and after work she is “Stoner,” drinking guys under the table and never letting any of them get too comfortable in her bed…
That’s because Lee’s learned one big lesson: never trust love. Four major heartbreaks set her straight, from her father cheating on her mom all the way to Ben Laderman in grad school—who wasn’t actually cheating, but she could have sworn he was, so she reciprocated in kind.
Then Ben shows up five years later, working as a policy expert for the most liberal governor in Texas history, just as Lee is trying to get a clean energy bill rolling. Things get complicated—and competitive—as Lee and Ben are forced to work together. Tension builds just as old sparks reignite, fanning the flames for a romantic dustup the size of Texas.
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