Title: The Hating Game
Description: For Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman, executive assistants to the CEOs of newly merged Bexley-Gamin Publishing, it's hate-at-first-sight. So begins a series of daily passive-aggressive maneuvers, including the staring game, the mirror game, and the HR game, each played with the intensity of the Hunger Games. Their mutual antipathy grows when a new executive position opens at Bexley-Gamin, and both their bosses put their names up for the promotion. Then, the high-stakes games begin! After another 60-hour work week, Lucy logs off her computer and hops on the elevator to head home, as does Joshua. When Joshua hits the emergency button and stops the ride, Lucy is certain her nemesis is going to kill her. Instead, he plants a kiss on her, and Lucy begins to wonder if she really does hate Joshua after all, or if this is yet another game. --
Subjects: Publishers and publishing, Man-woman relationships, Competition (Psychology), Fiction, Fiction, romance, contemporary, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Contemporary Women, Humorous, Romance, Contemporary, Love stories, Romance fiction, Man-woman relationship, Work environment, Interpersonal relations, Work relationships, enemies to lovers, he falls first, romance, contemporary
Places: Strawberry farm
People: Smurfs (fictitious characters), thelma and louise
Time periods: current times, 21st century