Love at First Spite
Anna E. Collins's Love at First Spite is a contemporary romcom built around one of the more inspired premises in recent commercial romance. Dani Porter is a Seattle architect whose fiance has just dumped her and moved his new girlfriend into the dream home Dani helped him design. Egged on by her best friend Stacey and a sturdy bottle of margaritas, Dani buys the vacant lot directly next door and resolves to build the ugliest, loudest, most obnoxious spite house possible to ruin his view forever. To execute the plan she partners with Wyatt Montego, the buttoned up architect colleague she has spent the entire year quietly disliking, who turns out to be both the only person willing to take the project on and the only person who has noticed her at the firm in a long time. Collins balances the satisfying revenge plot with a slow burn enemies to lovers thread, real estate banter, and an honest portrait of post breakup self respect.
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Furious after her fiance leaves her for someone else, Dani Porter buys the empty lot next to his new house and hires an architect to build her a spite house designed to ruin his view. She does not expect to like the architect.
Love at First Spite was written by Anna E. Collins and published in 2022. It is her debut novel, a contemporary romance about a woman who buys a spite house next door to her ex.
Love at First Spite contains some on-page content, around 3 out of 5 on the spice scale. It blends romcom humor with a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers premise.
Love at First Spite contains some on-page content, around 3 out of 5 on the spice scale. It blends romcom humor with a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers premise.
Love at First Spite is a standalone novel by an unknown author, not part of a series.
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