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Even Odds: A Novel Kindle Edition
As a design manager at PI Games, Isabel Suarez is no stranger to the struggles of being a woman in a male-dominated industry. But when her team attends a gaming convention on the other side of the country, she figures there’s no harm in putting aside her professional demeanor for one weekend to participate in a risqué scavenger hunt. Why shouldn’t she let loose and have a little fun?
A careless romp soon turns into more, however, when Isabel ends up having a fling with Caleb Portland, an artist and animator, without knowing he has just been hired to partner with her at her company—and Caleb can’t bring himself to tell her. When they end up coworkers a few weeks later, they need to find a way to work together and keep things strictly professional. Caleb doesn’t want to take on a relationship and risk failure. Isabel doesn’t want to risk ruining the professional reputation she’s worked so hard to develop. But when faced with the undeniable sizzling chemistry between them, will either of them be able to resist temptation?
A sexy and witty tale of romance and modern workplace politics, Even Odds is the latest winning entry in Elia Winters’ unique and well-loved erotic novels
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPocket Star
- Publication dateJuly 4, 2016
- File size2768 KB
Editorial Reviews
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"Just good ‘ole character development that runs alongside the development of the romantic relationship which the author managed to pull off really well through good writing." (Scandalicious Book Reviews )
"Well written, witty, romantic, and steamy." (Once Upon An Alpha )
"An interesting cast of characters...Fans of Amanda Ashby and Cate Cameron will enjoy Even Odds." (Harlequin Junkie )
"This book is unlike 95% of the books on the market right now." (Smitten With Reading )
"A geeky romance that was loaded with lots of fun, humor, love, banter, and kink!" (Four Chicks Flipping Pages )
"An enjoyable book with some super sexy times." (Smexy Books )
About the Author
Product details
- ASIN : B017RNBRTA
- Publisher : Pocket Star (July 4, 2016)
- Publication date : July 4, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 2768 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 282 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #785,325 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,476 in Enemies to Lovers Romance
- #18,678 in Women's Romance Fiction
- #20,737 in Contemporary Romance Fiction
- Customer Reviews:
About the author
RITA™ Award-winning author Elia Winters has always been a New England girl. Although she spent much of her childhood in Florida, she returned to her home state of Massachusetts as a teenager and has remained in New England ever since. She was blessed with an artsy, creative, quirky family that nurtured her eccentricities and helped shape her into the woman she is today.
Elia holds a Master’s degree in English Literature and teaches at a small rural high school, where she also runs the drama club. She balances her love of words with a love of baking, crafting, and a bottomless well of geekiness; in her spare time, she is equally likely to be found playing tabletop games, kneading bread, cross-stitching, or binge-watching Marie Kondo.
A writer all her life, Elia likes to dabble in many genres, but erotic romance has been one of her favorites since she first began sneaking her mother’s romance novels. In Catholic high school, she kept her friends entertained with a steady stream of explicit stories and somehow never got caught passing them around. Now, sex education and kink-positive feminism have become a cornerstone of Elia’s brand, including reviewing sex toys and presenting at kink conventions. She is a fat, tattooed, polyamorous bisexual who loves petting cats and fighting the patriarchy.
Elia writes geeky, kinky, cozy erotic romance. She currently lives in western Massachusetts with her loving husband and their weird pets.
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Even Odds by Elia Winters is a fun, geeky, and great read! I do love me some gaming and I love that the author incorporated that into her story. There aren’t many of these kinds of stories so I jumped at the chance to read this.
I loved the characters! Isabel is great. Working in a predominately male world, Isabel makes a name for herself. Which is hard to do. I loved her personality.
Caleb is a cutie. It was fun to see geeky people hang out and deal with feelings. I would love to read more if this turns into a series. I give this 4 stars!!
**Review on behalf of Once Upon An Alpha**
The story arc is simple and goes about the way you’d expect, but the realism of the two romantic leads prompted me to keep reading. I identify all too well with Isabel’s need to balance expressing femininity in a still male-dominated profession and with Caleb’s stress about pursuing his art. Caleb also gets so many bonus points for NOT being the typical hero in this story. A male character who actively recognizes and rejects the signs and impulses of toxic masculinity was a joy to read.
Despite how many sexy bits there are in the romance books I read, I don’t often call them out. I’d love to make an exception here because Winters does a fantastic job of literally making consent sexy. This inclusion is especially important in an interaction between characters who have just met, and I applaud this writing decision.
Caleb has a fear of failure because of not living up to his parents’ WASPy standards. His last business went under and his only girlfriend cheated on him a year prior. He doesn’t ever want to be in a relationship again because he’s pretty sure he’ll just screw it up. I got frustrated with his mixed signals: he doesn’t want to be in a relationship with Isabel but then he’s irritated that she wanted to keep things under wraps and not be public at work. She had much more on the line than him! I get that he didn’t fully understand workplace sexual harassment but even then, it felt unfair for him to want to sleep with her and have the benefits of the relationship but not give her any reassurances. That aspect went on a little longer than I’d have liked. I also wanted to know how he’d address his parents’ racism since this is referenced earlier in the plot and Isabel is Cuban American.
Overall, however, this was a delightful and delightfully steamy read. A+ incorporation of the Hitachi Magic Wand into the story.
CW: sexism, workplace sexual harassment, past infidelity