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The Kissing Game
236 pages
A charged 1980s workplace romance where hard-won professional boundaries collide with intense, antagonistic attraction.
What it feels like
Stepping into this 1980s romance feels like walking onto a highly competitive, male-dominated playing field where the real friction happens off the pitch. The narrative moves at a brisk, dramatic pace, anchoring the reader in the protagonist's hard-won professional pride before immediately threatening it with intense, scrutinizing boardroom oversight. There is a distinctly charged, slightly claustrophobic mood to the story, driven by the electric tension of being constantly watched and challenged by an adversary who is entirely too interested. Written with the emotionally direct, heightened prose characteristic of vintage category romance, the book delivers a classic battle of wills. It is perfect for readers who love the crackling dynamic of a highly competent woman holding her ground against an overbearing, captivated rival.
- Mood
- charged
- competitive
- scrutinizing
- Tone
- dramatic
- earnest
- tense
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- workplace tension · women in male-dominated fields · antagonistic attraction · professional ambition
- The writing
- Emotionally direct and dramatically focused, leaning into the heightened internal friction typical of 1980s category romance.
- The arc
- The protagonist moves from the high of a hard-won career milestone into a frustrating, highly charged battle of wills that inevitably melts into romance.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave vintage workplace romances featuring competent, ambitious heroines and the intense, brooding executives who cannot look away from them.
Content notes
- workplace sexism
About the book
This wasn't the game she'd signed up to play! Davina could not have been happier. The position she'd wanted and worked so hard for was hers! As physiotherapist to England's famous Redford Rovers soccer team, she would finally have her own clinic. A beautiful woman in a man's world, Davina had expected some resistance to her appointment, but not from Maxwell Blair, the youngest member of the board of directors. Whatever it was he really had against her, Davina could only guess. What she did know was that Max took an interest in her every move—an interest that greatly disturbed her.
Description from Open Library.
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