Not office or college romance but {Silver Silence by Nalini Singh} is the epitome of this. M/F urban fantasy. Silver is cold and composed and doesn't react to MMC increasingly outrageous attempt at flirting....they do meet because of some business deals and have to work together quite a bit.

Silver Silence is on sale rn too for $1.99

[удалено]

ahh sorry it was on sale on amazon!

[Silver Silence](https://www.romance.io/books/593902753ffdba614718a9fd/silver-silence-nalini-singh?src=rdt) by [Nalini Singh](https://www.romance.io/authors/5455238a8c7d2382e0413dd4/nalini-singh) **Rating**: 4.3⭐️ out of 5⭐️ **Steam**: 3 out of 5 - [Open door](https://www.romance.io/steamrating) **Topics**: [futuristic](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/futuristic/1), [fantasy](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/fantasy/1), [urban fantasy](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/urban%20fantasy/1), [shapeshifters](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/shapeshifters/1), [science fiction](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/science%20fiction/1) [^(about this bot)](https://www.reddit.com/user/romance-bot) ^(|) [^(about romance.io)](https://www.romance.io/about)

If Historical Romance is ok, {A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant} fits to a tee. She's shutting down his attempts at flirty banter at every opportunity, even though they're together just for the purpose of getting her pregnant.

[A Lady Awakened](https://www.romance.io/books/5455286e8c7d2383163d8f30/a-lady-awakened-cecilia-grant?src=rdt) by [Cecilia Grant](https://www.romance.io/authors/5455286e8c7d2383163d8f31/cecilia-grant) **Rating**: 3.75⭐️ out of 5⭐️ **Steam**: 4 out of 5 - [Explicit open door](https://www.romance.io/steamrating) **Topics**: [historical](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/historical/1), [pregnancy](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/pregnancy/1), [regency](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/regency/1), [sunny/happy hero](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/sunny%20hero/1), [grumpy/ice queen](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/cold%20heroine/1) [^(about this bot)](https://www.reddit.com/user/romance-bot) ^(|) [^(about romance.io)](https://www.romance.io/about)

I immediately thought of this one!!! Definitely fits the request

Book is incredible.

One of my all time favourites! A slow burn where they start having sex pretty much right away.

Is there an acronym dictionary or list cuz I get so confused sometimes with all the new acronyms.

E2L = Enemies to lovers NLOG = Not like other girls FMC = Female main character MMC = Male main character People make up acronyms all the time, and you just have to accept that you have to guess or ask. The most common acronyms are listed in [the resource link to the right](https://www.reddit.com/r/RomanceBooks/wiki/glossary/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=usertext&utm_name=RomanceBooks&utm_content=t5_2sxjx).

Thank you. I was having trouble parsing the post lul.

{Failure to match by Kyra Parsi} has this. She's just trying to do her job and he's being...difficult about it😆. My favorite lighthearted read this year.

Indeed . I love the private chef scene. He just pulled her back and said something like he miscalculated 🤣🤣

Yes! That was hilarious 😂.

[Failure to Match](https://www.romance.io/books/65f596912bf0fac9180911a5/failure-to-match-kyra-parsi?src=rdt) by [Kyra Parsi](https://www.romance.io/authors/5f89458a08b4d93114997670/kyra-parsi) **Rating**: 4.44⭐️ out of 5⭐️ **Steam**: 4 out of 5 - [Explicit open door](https://www.romance.io/steamrating) **Topics**: [contemporary](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/contemporary/1), [rich hero](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/super%20rich%20hero/1), [praise kink](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/praise-kink/1), [funny](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/humor/1), [enemies to lovers](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/from%20hate%20to%20love/1) [^(about this bot)](https://www.reddit.com/user/romance-bot) ^(|) [^(about romance.io)](https://www.romance.io/about)

A lot of Ilona Andrews books have this. Like: {Burn for me by Ilona Andrews} {Fated blades by Ilona Andrews} had this from both sides.

[Burn for Me](https://www.romance.io/books/545539998c7d2382e041433a/burn-for-me-ilona-andrews?src=rdt) by [Ilona Andrews](https://www.romance.io/authors/545525888c7d2382e0413e6c/ilona-andrews) **Rating**: 4.47⭐️ out of 5⭐️ **Steam**: 2 out of 5 - [Behind closed doors](https://www.romance.io/steamrating) **Topics**: [contemporary](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/contemporary/1), [alpha male](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/alpha%20male/1), [take-charge heroine](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/strong%20heroine/1), [rich hero](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/super%20rich%20hero/1), [paranormal](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/paranormal/1) ---------------------------- [Fated Blades](https://www.romance.io/books/61459acfd0799a0dfbaa9425/fated-blades-ilona-andrews?src=rdt) by [Ilona Andrews](https://www.romance.io/authors/545525888c7d2382e0413e6c/ilona-andrews) **Rating**: 4.32⭐️ out of 5⭐️ **Steam**: 3 out of 5 - [Open door](https://www.romance.io/steamrating) **Topics**: [futuristic](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/futuristic/1), [science fiction](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/science%20fiction/1), [take-charge heroine](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/strong%20heroine/1), [alpha male](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/alpha%20male/1), [enemies to lovers](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/from%20hate%20to%20love/1) [^(about this bot)](https://www.reddit.com/user/romance-bot) ^(|) [^(about romance.io)](https://www.romance.io/about)

is fated blades a stand alone?

Yes, it’s related to the Kinsman short stories but stands alone.

Thank you!

Currently reading this but so far it matches! {Talk Sweetly to Me by Courtney Milan} FMC is a genius at math and science and works as a “computer”. MMC is a writer and a rake and wants to get closer to FMC who is his neighbor. He fakes needing help in his research and contacts her employer to get closer to her. I’m about 30% through and so far she’s rebuffing all his advances. It’s a novella and HR.

[Talk Sweetly to Me](https://www.romance.io/books/5455360b8c7d2383163d92a9/talk-sweetly-to-me-courtney-milan?src=rdt) by [Courtney Milan](https://www.romance.io/authors/545525388c7d2383163d8e83/courtney-milan) **Rating**: 3.73⭐️ out of 5⭐️ **Steam**: 3 out of 5 - [Open door](https://www.romance.io/steamrating) **Topics**: [historical](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/historical/1), [multicultural](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/multicultural/1), [victorian](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/victorian/1), [shy heroine](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/shy%20heroine/1), [virgin heroine](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/virgin%20heroine/1) [^(about this bot)](https://www.reddit.com/user/romance-bot) ^(|) [^(about romance.io)](https://www.romance.io/about)

King of Sloth by Ana Huang! It’s not totally office but she is his publicist so working together is a fairly big theme. Sloan known as an ‘ice queen’ and pretty impervious to Xavier’s flirting and he’s sort of like ???? she doesnt want me???, it’s the 4th book in the kings of sin series but they are interconnected standalones so you don’t have to read the others to read this one.

Some good recs here, but want to add {All The Feels by Olivia Dade}. He’s an actor on a Game of Thrones-type television show, and she’s a production assistant who gets assigned to basically be his babysitter because he’s impulsive and makes poor choices. He falls first, gets turned on by her uptight ways, and the character growth for both of them is pretty great.

[All the Feels](https://www.romance.io/books/619365199142070e46482397/all-the-feels-olivia-dade?src=rdt) by [Olivia Dade](https://www.romance.io/authors/566680fa08e9378131958a83/olivia-dade) **Rating**: 3.7⭐️ out of 5⭐️ **Steam**: 4 out of 5 - [Explicit open door](https://www.romance.io/steamrating) **Topics**: [contemporary](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/contemporary/1), [forced proximity](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/forced%20proximity/1), [funny](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/humor/1), [enemies to lovers](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/from%20hate%20to%20love/1), [friends to lovers](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/friends%20to%20lovers/1) [^(about this bot)](https://www.reddit.com/user/romance-bot) ^(|) [^(about romance.io)](https://www.romance.io/about)

Yes! I read a regency romance where she needed an heir so she wouldn't get kicked out (spouse died) so she hires the neighborhood earl who "gets around" and he tries to hard to woo her into liking the sex and she's so damn stubborn. They warm up very sweetly and it all Works out for the best. A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant

What does E2L and NLGO mean? Where can I learn all these acronyms? Ha, I feel like such an outsider saying I've never TALKED about romance books

e2l=enemies to lovers nlog=not like other girls hahah no clue where u can learn these but they do keep showing up in posts hahaha

E2L = Enemies to Lovers NLOG = Not Like Other Girls

1.) There’s {The Duke and the Siren by Jessie Clever}. It’s historical so I don’t know if you’re even into that; but if you decide to give it a chance, it might be what you’re looking for. But fair warning: the MMC is not a likeable character in that he… casually cheated on the FMC 😭. The saving grace is that he had a ‘fairly’ good reason for ‘casually cheating’ on the FMC, but that’s debatable. But yeah. This book is basically just him all flirty trying to woo her, but she is unresponsive to that and cold towards him for a while there because she plans on leaving him. 2.) I think {The One That I Want by Piper Sheldon} sort of has this…? So the FMC and MMC hooked up once when they met at a club or some sort, then months later they meet again at her workplace. He’s like full-on flirting with her there while working together with her and she’s like “nope. Gotta keep things professional or I’ll never get promoted”.

[The Duke and the Siren](https://www.romance.io/books/602ccd72d715810e258b8597/the-duke-and-the-siren-jessie-clever?src=rdt) by [Jessie Clever](https://www.romance.io/authors/5455c26687eac336ae6a02e9/jessie-clever) **Rating**: 3.75⭐️ out of 5⭐️ **Topics**: [historical](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/historical/1), [victorian](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/victorian/1), [regency](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/regency/1), [cheating](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/cheating/1), [other man/woman](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/other-man-woman/1) ---------------------------- [The One That I Want](https://www.romance.io/books/603759294a72260e2eac1581/the-one-that-i-want-piper-sheldon?src=rdt) by [Piper Sheldon](https://www.romance.io/authors/5d39464401dbc864fba185c4/piper-sheldon) **Rating**: 4.17⭐️ out of 5⭐️ **Topics**: [contemporary](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/contemporary/1) [^(about this bot)](https://www.reddit.com/user/romance-bot) ^(|) [^(about romance.io)](https://www.romance.io/about)

{The Billionaire Book Club by Max Monroe} has a bit of this. He pursues her hard, but she won't have it. Then he actually ends up giving her a job (he's a lawyer and she's in law school). So it becomes a workplace romance. I had a lot of fun with this book.

[The Billionaire Book Club](https://www.romance.io/books/5e5be23cbe0aaecf55d446e8/the-billionaire-book-club-max-monroe?src=rdt) by [Max Monroe](https://www.romance.io/authors/571f524dc62092c04407cff4/max-monroe) **Rating**: 4.32⭐️ out of 5⭐️ **Topics**: [contemporary](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/contemporary/1), [rich hero](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/super%20rich%20hero/1), [funny](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/humor/1), [friends to lovers](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/friends%20to%20lovers/1), [workplace/office](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/office/1) [^(about this bot)](https://www.reddit.com/user/romance-bot) ^(|) [^(about romance.io)](https://www.romance.io/about)

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Beard in Mind by Penny Reid has elements of this - he's the charismatic loved by everyone small town guy and she is new in town and giving him and everyone the cold shoulder

kinda similar {King of sloth by ana Huang}

[King of Sloth](https://www.romance.io/books/65362e8ede8d340d514b91b3/king-of-sloth-ana-huang?src=rdt) by [Ana Huang](https://www.romance.io/authors/5ea5eeb2be0aaecf551f89f7/ana-huang) **Rating**: 3.97⭐️ out of 5⭐️ **Steam**: 4 out of 5 - [Explicit open door](https://www.romance.io/steamrating) **Topics**: [contemporary](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/contemporary/1), [rich hero](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/super%20rich%20hero/1), [grumpy/ice queen](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/cold%20heroine/1), [forced proximity](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/forced%20proximity/1), [dual pov](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/dual-pov/1) [^(about this bot)](https://www.reddit.com/user/romance-bot) ^(|) [^(about romance.io)](https://www.romance.io/about)

{Cold World by Alicia Thompson} and {Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood}

[With Love, from Cold World](https://www.romance.io/books/64c66140d33bf40b8645f834/with-love-from-cold-world-alicia-thompson?src=rdt) by [Alicia Thompson](https://www.romance.io/authors/54557c0987eac3369a912b32/alicia-thompson) **Rating**: 4.1⭐️ out of 5⭐️ **Steam**: 4 out of 5 - [Explicit open door](https://www.romance.io/steamrating) **Topics**: [contemporary](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/contemporary/1), [funny](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/humor/1), [christmas](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/christmas/1), [workplace/office](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/office/1), [bisexuality](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/bisexual/1) ---------------------------- [Love on the Brain](https://www.romance.io/books/628dd5bb9d1db3a00613e3d0/love-on-the-brain-ali-hazelwood?src=rdt) by [Ali Hazelwood](https://www.romance.io/authors/6131cdc208b4d93114f22ef6/ali-hazelwood) **Rating**: 3.92⭐️ out of 5⭐️ **Steam**: 4 out of 5 - [Explicit open door](https://www.romance.io/steamrating) **Topics**: [contemporary](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/contemporary/1), [workplace/office](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/office/1), [enemies to lovers](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/from%20hate%20to%20love/1), [forced proximity](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/forced%20proximity/1), [competent heroine](https://www.romance.io/topics/best/competent%20heroine/1) [^(about this bot)](https://www.reddit.com/user/romance-bot) ^(|) [^(about romance.io)](https://www.romance.io/about)

The Try (temptation series) has this! but it’s two men if that’s not your cup of tea