It is the 2nd book in her Gilded Age Girls Club book and involves two people who cannot stand each other.

Some Like It Scandalous by Maya Rodale may work too. I do think that the FBI/US Attorney series fits the bill, especially Something About You, which involves a lot of brooding on the hero’s part because he doesn’t want to like the heroine, who he believes got him transferred from Chicago to Nebraska three years earlier. He showed up again in It Happened One Wedding as the guy Sydney doesn’t choose, and I really want him to get his HEA, which would give us a chance to see if JD has changed in the last 10 years. (If he didn’t vote for Trump in 2016, it is solely because Payton and his friend Tyler convinced him it was a bad idea, forcing him to vote for Gary Johnson.) As much as I don’t like JD, I am still waiting for Tyler’s book. I agree with that he may have voted for Trump in 2016–I don’t think he’d vote for him this year, but he’d be one of those people writing in a conservative rather than voting for Biden.

Also, the “dark moment” involves a lie he told their boss about Payton several years earlier that could have caused problems with her career. At one point, he rants about how white men have to work twice as hard to get the same respect as women because Payton ended up on a list of female lawyers under 30 to watch out for. JD is the worst type of Conservative Republican. When I read it in 2009, I really liked it, but I reread it last year and was so mad. I have to agree about Practice Makes Perfect. Hockey arch-rivals who secretly bang every time they’re in the same city.Īmanda: Yeah, I think the distinction here between enemies to lovers and enemies with benefits is that the latter takes longer for the main characters to like one another. Shana: I rarely read this trope but I have trouble imagining a better example than Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid ( A | BN | K | AB ). Practice Makes Perfect ( A | BN | K | G | AB ) is two attorneys, however.

Downside – she writes a lot of FBI agent heroes, which I suspect is going to be a dealbreaker for a lot of people right now. However, I couldn’t find the original comment that sparked it.Ĭatherine: I am not entirely sure what Enemies with Benefits looks like, but Julie James does quite a lot of antagonistic but hot pairings which might count. I’m reasonably certain this idea came up in the comments at some point, when we were discussing tropes and what could possibly be the opposite of friends to lovers.

Enemies with Benefits by Annika Martin