At First Spite: A Novel

For attendees to the Ashland Public Library Event with Olivia Dade, Julie Murphy, Sierra Simone, and Denise Williams on September 14, the authors will be signing bookplates for every book ordered through Aesop's Fable. Bestselling author Olivia Dade welcomes you to Harlot’s Bay in this delightfully sexy rom-com about a woman who buys the town’s famous Spite House, only to realize the infuriating man she can’t stand lives right next door—and their unwilling proximity might spark something neither can ignore. When Athena Greydon’s fiancé ends their engagement, she has no choice but to move into the Spite House she recklessly bought him as a wedding gift. Which is a problem, for several reasons: The house, originally built as a brick middle finger to the neighbors, is only ten feet wide. Her ex’s home is literally attached to hers. And Dr. Matthew Vine the Freaking Third—AKA the uptight, judgy jerk who convinced his younger brother Johnny to leave her—is living on her other side, only a f