Hot Desk by Laura Dickerman

Hot Desk by Laura DickermanYounger meets Writers & Lovers in this rollicking, sparkling, and funny novel that spans decades and generations of a family in the publishing industry. In the post pandemic publishing industry, two rival editors are forced to share a hot desk on different days of the week, much to their chagrin. Having never set eyes on each other, Rebecca Blume and Ben Heath begin leaving passive aggressive Post it notes on the pot of their shared cactus. But when

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Emilia is completely off-limits

I shy away from romantic entanglements because I know firsthand the collateral damage they cause

commoner rubbish

But when Bee’s favorite producer casts her to star in a Christmas movie he’s making for the squeaky-clean Hope Channel

the solution to both their problems becomes clear: Naomi will pretend to date Dev in order to sabotage his mother’s matchmaking efforts in exchange for lessons in Bengali culture

and Lulu and Dex are along for the ride

Like a renewed sense of vulnerability and curiosity

she has no choice but to escape the scene of the crime

But none of them brings out her hyper-competitive side quite like William Ashdern

Librarian Marcela Ortiz has been secretly in love with her best friend for years—and when he gets engaged

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