Love at First Spite

Love is sweet, but revenge on a cheating ex is even sweeter in Love at First Spite, a fun and flirty first novel by Anna E. Collins.

A month before their wedding, Dani Porter--a 30-something interior designer living in Seattle, Wash.--catches her fiancé, Sam, in flagrante delicto with the real estate agent in charge of finalizing contracts on a water-view dream home for the soon-to-be newlyweds. Adding insult to injury, Dani then learns that Sam bought the property on his own--only his name appears on the title. This fuels Dani's determination to make Sam pay for double-crossing her. She buys the vacant lot next door and decides to build an obtrusive rental property with the intent to spoil Sam's water view and make his life a living hell.

Dani's revenge plot is supported by her best-friend cousin and a fun-loving, widowed landlady who both encourage Dani to enlist the help of her standoffish, quirky coworker, Wyatt Montego--a handsome, fastidious architect who eats sandwiches with a knife and fork. As Wyatt draws up blueprints, he questions Dani's decisions to diminish privacy for the house next door. Will he learn of Dani's real agenda? And if so, will it change the burgeoning romantic feelings he has for her--and vice versa?

Plotting revenge proves therapeutic for Dani and a cast of memorable supporting characters--but at what cost? Collins's connivingly plotted rom-com will entice readers to root for the pay-out of an enlightened happy ending. --Kathleen Gerard, blogger at Reading Between the Lines

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