After a revolving door of dating and breaking up with Veronica Preston, Kelcey has stepped back and sworn never to get lured in again. And she definitely doesn’t spend her time thinking of Veronica.

Veronica, who’s cruised by her whole life on looking good and never developing any interpersonal skills, is only finally facing her issues because of the one who got away—and a woman, at that. And when a work contract brings them in contact on Kelcey’s biggest work project to date, the only solution to Veronica’s mind is to hide her real identity.

But when their connection starts to get too real—and Veronica realizes there’s nothing she won’t do for another chance with Kelcey—will the weight of their past crush them, or will they finally find their way to happily ever after?

A Conflict of Interest is an 80,000-word second-chance Christmas romance with a mistaken identity, mountains of mutual pining, and a coming-out storyline both coming out as bisexual and coming out as a decent person somewhere deep down. Content warnings for open-door sex scenes, knocking down Christmas trees, Mom having no sense of boundaries, two romantic leads who are both equally clueless in different ways, and a dashing, daring nutcracker heist(?).