Love Scene

Name: Love Scene
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781399742429
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A hot hate-at-first-sight, forced-proximity romantic comedy from the author of Our Song

By Anna Carey

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HATE AT FIRST SIGHT. THEN COMES THE REWRITE. 'Utterly delicious - I couldn't stop reading this' MARIAN KEYES 'Warm, sexy, and full of whip-smart humour that had me cackling through each page, Love Scene is everything I crave in a rom-com. I adored it!' CATHERINE WALSH... Read More

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Love Scene

$37⁹⁹

An irresistible romance perfect for fans of Sarah Adams, Catherine Walsh and B.K. Borison

An irresistible romance perfect for fans of Sarah Adams, Catherine Walsh and B.K. Borison

Description

HATE AT FIRST SIGHT. THEN COMES THE REWRITE.

'Utterly delicious - I couldn't stop reading this' MARIAN KEYES

'Warm, sexy, and full of whip-smart humour that had me cackling through each page, Love Scene is everything I crave in a rom-com. I adored it!' CATHERINE WALSH

'A balm for the soul, this is a gorgeously sweet and sexy novel with characters you'll want to befriend and a soap you'll wish was real!' VICKI NOTARO

TV writer Annie McDermott has finally landed her dream job. The nightmare part: she has to share an office with her nemesis.

Arrogant (and distractingly handsome) Art Sullivan - who Annie hasn't seen since their college days - was supposed to be Hollywood's Next Big Thing. So what's he doing in a soap opera writers' room, apart from pushing Annie's buttons?

Soon though, Annie's got a bigger distraction: someone's trying to sabotage the show. But she's not going to let her dream go without a fight. Even if it means asking for Art's help to stop them.

After Annie and Art find themselves sharing a very hot kiss at the office (which they swear will never happen again), things get even more complicated. But if they can quit arguing long enough to finally admit they make a good team, there might just be another plot twist ahead...

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781399742429

Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 May 2026

Country: Ireland

Imprint: Hachette Books Ireland

Illustration: n/a

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 32.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 460g

Pages: 384

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Anna Carey Contemporary Romance Enemies to Lovers Fiction General Fiction Romance

About the Author

Anna Carey is an Irish Book Award-winning novelist, journalist, editor and scriptwriter who spent her teens and twenties playing in bands.

She is the author of seven acclaimed novels for young adults. Her debut novel The Real Rebecca won the Senior Children's Book of the Year prize at the 2011 Irish Book Awards and her last book The Boldness of Betty was shortlisted for the same award in 2020. Her drama podcast The Famine Monologues was released by RTE in 2021 and her play The Making of Mollie was staged in 2024.

Our Song, her first book for adults, published in June 2025 and was shortlisted for Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards.

Her second romance novel, Love Scene, will publish in summer 2026.

She is married to her former bandmate Patrick Freyne and lives in Dublin.

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