Semantics

The Start-up Series, Book 1

By Nicole Pyland

College enemies meet again ten years later for some no strings fun because that always works.

Violet Russell and her friends met during a semester abroad in Amsterdam ten years ago. They’ve been trying to make their business idea turn into a massive success ever since, but she and her three friends all still work out of the garage and live together to save money. On top of that, Violet has been using her trust fund to keep the company afloat, and the money is about to run out. They have a chance to invest in a tool that could help speed up their progress, but that tool comes at a cost, and it’s not just money.

When Stella Ross sees that Violet Russell, the woman she met in Amsterdam years ago, who made her school life there hell, is interested in her company’s product, she decides that as the SVP of Sales, she’ll take on this possible account herself because if she can get Violet to buy her software, she’d have an in with the rest of the Russell Group companies, which would be a big win for her.

The two women haven’t seen each other since their college rival days, and when sparks fly and confessions are revealed after they reconnect, they decide that the best way to handle the tension between them is to engage in some no-strings fun because that never ends badly or with two women discovering that they have real feelings for one another after all.