Love Interest
A Novel
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4.8 • 6 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Love Interest is Clare Gilmore's sparkling debut, a co-worker enemies-to-lovers rom-com that proves falling in love is the risk and the reward.
Casey Maitland has always preferred the reliability of numbers. Now a twenty-four-year-old finance expert working in Manhattan, she wonders if the open project manager position at her company—magazine powerhouse LC Publications—is a sign from the universe to pursue a career with a little more sparkle. That is, until she’s passed over for the job in favor of the board chairman’s son.
Alex Harrison is handsome, Harvard-educated, and enigmatic. Everybody loves him—except for Casey. But when the two are thrown on the same project, what they discover about their company might change everything—including the dreams each of them is chasing and their mutual love interest.
“Love Interest is Nora Ephron for Gen Z.” —ASHLEY WINSTEAD, author of The Boyfriend Candidate
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A young financial analyst finds herself balancing more than just a budget in debut author Clare Gilmore’s sweet workplace romance. When Casey Maitland is rejected for a promotion at Little Cooper Publications, she’s devastated—and things only get worse when she meets the man they hired instead: Alex Harrison, son of the board chairman. We loved following Casey as her feelings shift big-time, from seeing Alex as a narcissistic nepo baby to discovering that there’s more to him than meets the eye. Office romances are always complicated, but Gilmore fills her novel with friends and co-workers who bring insight and levity to the situation. She even throws in a scintillating dash of corporate intrigue for good measure. Love Interest is the perfect commute or after-work read.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Gilmore's confident debut rom-com features a pair of ambitious but appealing young careerists. Despite having an English mother, Nashville-raised Casey Maitland hasn't traveled much beyond the South. Taking a finance job at a Manhattan magazine publisher was an adventure, but she's ready to go bigger by earning a transfer to her company's London office. That job feels out of reach, however, when new hire Alex Harrison takes the lead position on a project she'd been eyeing for herself. Unaware that Casey wanted his job, Alex doesn't understand her initial animosity to him, but puts that aside to focus on the project's success and winning approval from his estranged father, the company's CEO. Inevitably forced to collaborate, Casey discovers there is much more depth to Alex than his flirty persona initially suggested, while Alex is impressed with Casey's ability to bring people together. Gilmore adds some welcome realism to this workplace romance, and refreshingly avoids using coincidence or luck to propel Casey and Alex to their professional and emotional wins. This should earn the author many fans.
