A Break in Communications

Set for the ultimate office showdown, Lucy and Anna have to… pretend to date?

Lucy Masters is Anna’s personal nightmare for Christmas: the cutthroat competitor in her office vying for the same executive communications position that Anna is aiming for, a decision to be settled by Christmas.
Anna Preston’s whole life is wrapped up in this opportunity, and she’s not pulling any punches when it comes to her relentless rival. She’s finally settling this score, putting Lucy down once and for all, and getting the promotion, no matter what.

Lucy Masters is deeply, desperately, head-over-heels in love with Anna Preston. Despite the constant flirting and advances over the past year, her coworker hasn’t seemed to pick up on any of it.
But when they’re put together on one major project to prove themselves before the executive promotion opens, maybe Lucy has a chance to get through to her. Especially when, one way or another, half the world thinks they’re dating, and they have to keep up the charade.

Between Anna’s nosy family, their nosy office, and a major client who loves the fact that Anna and Lucy are definitely, absolutely a real couple, will they bridge the gaps between them, or will the position of communications executive… well, get in the way of their communication?

A Break in Communications is an 85,000-word Christmas office romance with a one-sided enemies-to-lovers, other-sided love-at-first-sight dynamic, featuring fake dating, secret dating at the same time, and a cast of characters each with more issues than the last. Content warnings for open-door sex scenes, injury and hospitalization of an elderly relative (she’s fine, though, for better or worse), and a whole host of nosy people trying to help and making things worse.