Love in the Margins
When Elena Marchetti walks through the seventeenth-floor doors of SABLE Publishing, she has everything to prove and a chip on her shoulder the size of every rejection slip she's ever collected. Her new colleague Dominic Hale is everything she can't stand: smug, sharp-tongued, and infuriatingly brilliant at his job. Their colleagues, Catherine Vance, the formidable Beatrice, the unflappable Ruth, and the rest of the SABLE crew, are quietly convinced the two will either kill each other or fall in love, and they're not entirely sure which outcome worries them more. But the bylines aren't the only battleground. With Eleanor Whittaker and her husband Frank watching from the corner office like a publishing power couple, and Elena's fiercely loyal friends Margot Pryce, Vivienne Pryce, and Toni pulling her toward late-night drinks and questionable advice, Elena must decide what kind of story she wants her life to be. Every rewrite she slides across Dominic's desk becomes a sparring match. Every late night in the office becomes a dare neither of them is willing to back down from. When a career-defining opportunity forces the two rivals to collaborate on the most impossible project of their careers, Elena must choose between the safe, by-the-book story she's always planned and the messy, unscripted one Dominic is offering, knowing that some plotlines, once written into the margins of a life, can never truly be erased.