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My new romantic comedy, Grump and Grumpier, brings the heat and the laughs.

If you read the first book in the series, Two Times the Trouble: A Fake Date Romantic Comedy, you may remember Callie’s roommate Ana. Grump and Grumpier is her story, and it’s a wild ride. Ana loves to read smutty books, and that love of spicy romance impacts her story in multiple ways.

The book kicks off with a hot scene during her job interview with two grumpy CEOs, and you won’t want to miss it!

Instead of describing my work ethic, my voice lowers to a purr, and I say, “Yes, Mr. Bennett. I like to be worked hard.”

Whoooops! How did that slip out?

This is why you shouldn’t read romance books right before a job interview!

The energy in the room shifts immediately. The men still look grouchy, but more in a “you’ve been a bad girl and I need to turn you over my knee” kind of way.

Here’s more about Grump and Grumpier:

My job interview started with two scowls and ended with a bang. Yeah … that kind of bang!

There’s absolutely no way I can accept the position after the jaw-droppingly amazing and completely unprofessional things I did with the two gorgeous but grouchy men who own the buzz-worthy coffee company, Community Bean.

But then they make me an offer I can't refuse: a short-term position, more money than I currently make in an entire year, a fancy management job title, and—oh yeah—a chance to save their sinking business.

Why are they in such desperate need of help? Well, it turns out that Grump and Grumpier are as good at dealing with people as I am with quantum physics—which is to say, not at all.
Derek Brooks is all brooding intensity, with smoldering eyes that short-circuit my brain and a body that fills out custom-made suits so well I'm in danger of becoming dehydrated from constant drooling.

Jansen Bennett’s death-glare has sent multiple employees running for the hills, but for some reason, I’m dying to get behind that scowl, and for him to get behind me, if you know what I mean!

So what’s a girl to do? Take the job, obviously. But, maybe keep the “banging the grouchy bosses” part under wraps. It’s just a fling. A reckless, completely inappropriate, hotter-than-an-extra-spicy-tamale fling, and ninety-nine percent guaranteed to blow up in my face. (There's always a chance that everything will be fine, isn't there?)

But hey, I’ll only be working with them for six months. Surely I can resist falling for two bossy, grumpy, emotionally unavailable men with killer abs and extra large eggplant emojis, right?

…Right?

Grump and Grumpier is a spicy rom com with two hot grumpy bosses and one sunshiney woman who changes their lives, leading to a why-choose style happily ever after.