Hate You, Maybe

When the stakes are win, lose, or fall … and love is not in their lesson plan.

Sayla Kroft has only two goals this year:

1. Score the big district grant to rebuild her high school’s dilapidated theater. 2. Avoid Dexter Michaels, the flirty-flirt athletic director who wants those same funds for the gym.

Losing to her workplace enemy—again—is not on Sayla's never-ending to-do list. Neither is being trapped with her maddening coworker at a professional retreat.

Or noticing his relentlessly crooked smile is actually kind of ... hot.

But just as she’s beginning to believe Dex might not be the devil himself, the two are forced to switch job titles to prove their collaborative spirit. That’s when Sayla realizes her competition is fiercer than she imagined, which leaves her with an impossible choice:

Fall for Dex and risk losing the grant … or stop at nothing to win, and risk losing everything.

© 2025 Julie Christianson (Audiobook): 9798349129933

Release date

Audiobook: December 11, 2025