The Fake Feud

She's been secretly in love with her rival for a year. Now she has to convince the entire office she can't stand him.

Lori Markley and Fabian Johnstone have a secret: they're happily, quietly, completely in love. They also work for rival PR agencies in New York - which was fine, until their companies merged overnight and left them competing for the same Senior Partner position.

The new policy is clear. No relationships between colleagues at the same level. Anyone found in an undisclosed relationship is disqualified from consideration. After six years of working toward this title, Lori isn't walking away from it. Neither is Fabian.

Their solution: the most elaborate, most public, most unconvincing fake feud in corporate history.

By day, they trade cutting remarks across conference tables and sabotage each other's pitches in front of the CEO. By night, they go home to the same apartment and try to remember why any of this was a good idea.

It was supposed to be temporary. Controlled. Theirs.

But when their staged rivalry starts producing real consequences - and a dangerous colleague begins putting the pieces together - the line between performed resentment and actual damage starts to blur. And Lori begins to wonder: how long can you pretend to hate someone you love before the pretending starts to cost something real?

The Fake Feud is a steamy workplace romance featuring secret relationships, forced proximity, a reverse fake dating twist, and a guaranteed happily ever after.