Release Blitz and Giveaway:The Office Bet: Eden Finley
August 21, 2025
Fox
There are only three things in life I’m passionate about: my family, sports, and hating Archer Holloway.
He’s the most prolific associate at the firm and out earns everyone at our level. Plus, he’s annoyingly good-looking and is somehow able to charm everyone. Everyone except me.
His athlete roster might be impressive, but his tactics for signing clients can be questionable at best.
So, when the chance arises to stealthily pitch to someone he’s gunning for, I don’t hesitate.
Two can play at this game.
Archer
I don’t understand why Lincoln Fox hates me. Okay, so maybe I signed a few athletes he was pursuing, but that’s not personal. It’s business.
I really do think he’d come to like me if he got to know me. He won’t give me the time of day though. He never has. Which is a shame because Fox is the most attractive man I’ve ever met.
The more he argues with me, the more everyone around us thinks there’s a spark between us. The office pool is over two thousand dollars now, but they’re backing the wrong horse. No one will win this bet because the chance of us hooking up are less than zero. Fox will never see me as anything more than an over-competitive jerk. What a waste of money.
Lincoln Fox is a structured, uptight, untrusting sports agent and he works in the King Sports LA office. He tries to keep everything professional, does not fraternize as friends or anything else after work, and has his own insecurities, rules, and boundaries. He is a work-a-holic and is just trying to be successful. But it seems that one man is always in his way.
His office nemesis is Archer Holloway. Archer is charming, sarcastic, cutthroat, and is all about winning. Archer knows Fox hates him, even if he does not want him to, but he also loves to tease and taunt Fox to get a reaction out of him. Archer has his own issues and a strong need to be the best. And that makes Fox think badly of him and label him as a backstabber with bully tendencies.
These two are so volatile that the office has a bet going on a multitude of possibilities that range from a kiss, hook up, to marriage or murder. And with their chemistry and strong reactions they have for each other, any are a possibility.
They are competitive, sly, antagonistic, and rile each other up...until they find themselves needing to deal with a situation together. And slowly they start to see under the other's carefully crafted facades and begin a tentative partnership and start to act on their attraction even if they do not want anyone winning a bet about it.
Combining work and play can be messy business.
I loved these two. I really got attached to Archer because there was so much more to him than Fox thought at first and he just wanted Fox to like him. And I loved seeing Fox start to relax his own guards. They have fun banter, great chemistry, and I enjoyed seeing them start to be more respectful and appeciative, and also be more vulnerable and trusting with each other even as they were also afraid of how things were changing.
This is a fiery, hot, witty snarky, workplace, forced-proximity, secret fling, rivals/enemies-to-partners-to-lovers romance. It brings back others from the King Sports world and Sadenverse and they add more humor and shenanigans to the story. They gave these agents some headaches and a reason to have to work together and provided a lot of entertainment.
Genre: M/M Baseball Romance Standalone
Tropes: Enemies to friends to lovers, close proximity, agent + player, secret situationship
Tropes: Enemies to friends to lovers, close proximity, agent + player, secret situationship
Thad
Failing to make it in pro ball left me absolutely devastated. Baseball has been my life, my dream, but it’s time to move on.
Becoming a sports agent was always my back-up plan, and now that I’m interning at the biggest queer-focused firm in the country, I’m doing my best not to let my bitterness toward baseball affect my future.
That’s really difficult when I’m assigned to babysit Kelley Afton, hotshot rookie pitcher for Philly. He has everything I ever wanted, and he doesn’t even appreciate it. I didn’t become an agent so I could soothe the ego of diva athletes.
His constant need for validation from others frustrates me to no end, but that’s probably a good thing. Because if he didn’t have that, I’d find him irresistibly my type.
Attraction could lead to crossing lines which would put my position at King Sports in jeopardy, and I can’t have that.
I don’t have a backup for my backup plan.
Eden Finley is an Amazon bestselling author who writes steamy contemporary romances that are full of snark and light-hearted fluff.
She doesn't take anything too seriously and lives to create an escape from real life for her readers. The ideas always begin with a wackadoodle premise, and she does her best to turn them into romances with heart.
With a short attention span that rivals her son's, she writes multiple different pairings: MM, MMF, and MF.
She's also an Australian girl and apologises for her Australianisms that sometimes don't make sense to anyone else.
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