A simmering slow burn bursting with banter... This is a romance for anyone who's ever felt too
messy to be loved.' Rosie Danan author of The Roommate In this fierce and funny battle of the
exes Ashley Winstead's Fool Me Once explores the chaos of wanting something you used to have.
Lee Stone is a twenty-first-century woman: she kicks butt at her job as a communications
director at a women-run electric car company (that's better than Tesla thank you) and after
work she is Stoner ? drinking guys under the table and never letting any of them get too
comfortable in her bed... That's because Lee's learned one big lesson: never trust love. Four
major heartbreaks set her straight from her father cheating on her mom all the way to Ben
Laderman in grad school?who wasn't actually cheating but she could have sworn he was so she
reciprocated in kind. Then Ben shows up five years later working as a policy expert for the
most liberal governor in Texas history just as Lee is trying to get a clean energy bill
rolling. Things get complicated?and competitive?as Lee and Ben are forced to work together.
Tension builds just as old sparks reignite fanning the flames for a romantic dustup the size
of Texas. Don't miss The Boyfriend Candidate Ashley Winstead's next laugh-out-loud rom-com
about learning to embrace living outside your comfort zone!
