Two Turtle Doves and a Restraining Order
Description
On the second day of Christmas, true love came with HR forms and bird droppings.
Holly Bramwell has survived budget season, mandatory peppermint lattes, and the Ministry's annual holiday morale seminar.
But nothing prepares her for this year's "Holiday Romance Initiative," where employees anonymously "woo" each other using Ministry-approved corporate love letters...hand-delivered by turtle doves.
Romantic?
Sure?right up until the doves unionize and start flinging complaints (and droppings) with alarming accuracy.
When Holly begins receiving increasingly intense "secret admirer" notes, she assumes it's an overeager coworker.
Wrong.
It's worse.
Her admirer is HR.
The entire department.
And according to the Ministry, she's contractually obligated to "engage with all authorized romantic overtures in the spirit of festive team-building."
Soon Holly is caught between:
- a flock of emotionally volatile doves,
- an HR department convinced they're courting her legally,
- a courtroom rapidly filling with avian witnesses, and
- her infuriatingly charming work rival, who suddenly looks like the only sane man in the building.
To save her job, her dignity, and possibly the entire holiday season, Holly must prove that love isn't a corporate acquisition?even when the turtle doves are threatening to file a class-action heartbreak suit.
More details
Person
Verity Farcett writes the books you never knew you needed?until you tripped over them.
From Regency romps with weaponized scandals to epic fantasies where the Chosen One probably isn't, Verity skewers every genre trope she can get her quill on. Her stories blend absurdity, wit, and sideways logic, delivering plots that spiral gloriously out of control while somehow still hitting every satisfying emotional beat.
Whether it's historical romance, heroic quests, or gothic melodrama, no trope is safe?but every adventure is written with a suspicious amount of affection for the genre she's dismantling. If you like earnest disasters, reluctant heroes, and plots that fight back, you'll find your next favorite catastrophe right here.
When she isn't orchestrating fictional disasters, Verity can be found communing with her Tufted Roman goose, Toni?muse, menace, and inspiration for all honking hijinks.
