The Accidental Roommate: A Forced Proximity Romance

He's methodical. She's organized. They both signed the lease. Only one apartment exists.



Cassie Park has exactly one move into her new apartment, set up her whiteboard, and start over after a breakup that taught her exactly what she didn't want in a partner. The plan is perfect. The plan is ruined the moment she's on the kitchen floor organizing cleaning supplies and a stranger walks in with a box labeled KITCHEN and his own very real, very legitimate lease.



Eli Holt is between projects, post-divorce, and needs exactly one a clean space to think. What he gets instead is a graphic designer with a color-coded schedule system, strong opinions about visual hierarchy, and a whiteboard that is, he has to admit, a valid design principle.



Building management's database error sent two leases to the same unit. The resolution timeline? Three to six weeks. The two-bedroom apartment? Perfectly adequate for one person, and a very specific kind of interesting for two people who both work from home.



So they negotiate. A whiteboard schedule. Kitchen time blocks. A thermostat compromise at sixty-nine degrees. A co-tenancy agreement that Eli drafts himself, because he used to be a real estate lawyer and apparently that's just the kind of person he is.



What they don't why she keeps stopping at his corridor drawings. Why he leaves a hardware store note on her whiteboard before she knew she needed it. Why "the arrangement is working" means something different every week it stays true.



The folder was going to need a system.



The Accidental Roommate is a witty, slow-burn forced proximity romance about two extremely competent people discovering that being good at systems doesn't make you good at feelings—until, suddenly, it kind of does.





✔ Forced proximity / fake roommates to lovers

✔ Slow burn with simmering tension

✔ Grumpy-meets-organized (both are the organized one)

✔ Enemies to reluctant allies to something more

✔ Professional collaboration as foreplay

✔ Witty banter on every page

✔ Standalone HEA — no cliffhangers

✔ Steamy scenes (18+)





"That's a valid design principle."

The moment Cassie realized she was in trouble.





Part of The Convenient Mistake Series — each book is completely standalone. Start anywhere.



Fans of The Hating Game, Beach Read, and One Last Stop will feel right at home.