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The One You Hate
This isn’t Michael Picetti’s first presidential election cycle. He wants to win, but he’s too burned out to be a true believer. These days, he doesn’t feel much at all, except when a conversation on the plane to Iowa ignites a spark he thought was gone. Desire.
Lydia Reales has just landed her dream job. She has to impress the campaign manager and win this election, and she doesn’t have time to flirt with a strange man on a plane or in a hotel bar, especially not when he’s the enemy.
Michael and Lydia should have nothing in common. They shouldn’t even talk. They should absolutely not start a reckless secret affair that threatens their careers and reputations. But as the campaign rages on, they’ll question everything they should do in politics—and in love.
Previously released as Party Lines
Lydia Reales has just landed her dream job. She has to impress the campaign manager and win this election, and she doesn’t have time to flirt with a strange man on a plane or in a hotel bar, especially not when he’s the enemy.
Michael and Lydia should have nothing in common. They shouldn’t even talk. They should absolutely not start a reckless secret affair that threatens their careers and reputations. But as the campaign rages on, they’ll question everything they should do in politics—and in love.
Previously released as Party Lines
- GenresEnemies To LoversSpicy
300 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 21, 2022
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Emma Barry
27 books223 followersEmma Barry is a teacher, novelist, recovering academic, and former political staffer. She lives with her high school sweetheart and a menagerie of pets and children in Virginia, and she occasionally finds time to read and write.
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February 24, 2024Quick DNF - during this political climate, not interested in reading about a Republican staffer
March 31, 2022
I had to put this one in an alternate reality because it’s a romance between a Democrat and a Republican. The book isn’t dealing with the current version of the Republican Party, or the version that’s dominated by evangelical Christians and White Supremacists. Though I am very much to the left politically, I used to have Republican friends and I feel a nostalgia for a time when I could tell myself “reasonable people can disagree” about political positions. My bad feeling about Republicans really started in 1994 with Newt Gingrich’s Contract With America, or as my boyfriend at the time, a former Democratic Hill Staffer, called it, “The Contract on America.” I fully acknowledge that the nostalgia for a time when reasonable people could disagree is probably very white of me.
Michael has been working on Democratic campaigns for years, but he was born jaded. Lydia is staffing her first Republican Presidential campaign and wants to prove she is more than a token for the campaign to trot out. They keep running into each other on the campaign trail, but Lydia can’t see how a relationship would work despite the sparks between them. Once I ensconced them firmly on a similar but separate Earth, Michael and Lydia were my favorites. Lydia has such a sharp sparkling light that it made complete sense to me that Michael would begin pining for her.
Michael has been working on Democratic campaigns for years, but he was born jaded. Lydia is staffing her first Republican Presidential campaign and wants to prove she is more than a token for the campaign to trot out. They keep running into each other on the campaign trail, but Lydia can’t see how a relationship would work despite the sparks between them. Once I ensconced them firmly on a similar but separate Earth, Michael and Lydia were my favorites. Lydia has such a sharp sparkling light that it made complete sense to me that Michael would begin pining for her.
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