Plunged (Heartbreaker Trades Book 1)

She'd rather flood her entire house than admit she needs him.

When Mara's pipes burst the same week her landlord sells the building to her most insufferable childhood rival, she tells herself the only thing worse than the water damage is having to watch Cole Merritt smirk while he fixes it. He's cocky, infuriating, and annoyingly good at his job — and somehow, after years of trading insults instead of pleasantries, he's also become impossible to ignore.

Cole has spent a long time pretending Mara doesn't get under his skin. He's wrong, and he knows it. There's something about the way she argues with him — chin lifted, eyes blazing — that makes him want to push back just to watch her push harder. Working in close quarters was never part of his plan. Wanting her was even less of one.

But walls have a way of coming down when everything else is already flooded.

*Plunged* is a slow-burn, small-town enemies-to-lovers romance full of sharp banter, simmering tension, and two stubborn people who are absolutely, completely, one hundred percent not falling for each other — until they are.

Because the most dangerous thing about hating someone this much is discovering what's really underneath it.

And once you see it, you can't unsee it.