Two Can Play

Viola Bowen's dream job comes with a nightmare attached—and his name is Jesse Andrews.

When Viola lands the coveted co-lead role designing a video game adaptation of her all-time favorite book series, she's ready to pour everything into making it perfect. There's just one problem: she'll be sharing that lead with Jesse, the infuriatingly gorgeous colleague who has made his contempt for her crystal clear for years. She's never understood his hostility, but she's learned to match it, ice for ice.

Then their bosses drop the ultimate professional torture device: a mandatory team-building retreat at a snow-blanketed mountain lodge, just the two of them and enough forced proximity to make Viola seriously reconsider her career choices. Stranded together as temperatures plummet outside, the rules of their war start to shift in ways neither of them expected.

This workplace romantic comedy from Ali Hazelwood delivers everything fans love about her writing—sharp wit, sizzling chemistry, and heroines who refuse to go quietly. Set against the creative chaos of the gaming industry, *Two Can Play* layers genuine emotional stakes beneath its steamy, snow-globe premise. Because it turns out Jesse's icy exterior might be hiding something that runs dangerously hot, and Viola's bitterness might have been covering something she's not ready to name.

When rivals become something else entirely, who wins—and does it even matter anymore?