The Sixty/Forty Rule

Sunset Landing Series, Book 1

By: Ellie K. Wilde

Narrated by: Charlotte North, Brandon Utah

Sixty/Forty Rule (noun): a deal you make with your pain-in-the-butt client when hating him starts to feel a little too good.

Jude Holland has slogged it for years at a chance to land a coveted job designing the city's most breathtaking restaurants and nightclubs. When a spot opens up on her firm's design team, her boss makes her a deal: design Theo Jordan—the firm's biggest client—a new restaurant, convince him to renew his contract with the company, and the job is hers.

If only he'd play along.

Theo is infamous for three very specific things: he's a hot-shot young chef-turned-restaurateur, a thorn-in-your-side client, and the kind of attractive that makes you wonder which kind of psychedelics the great maker was taking when he created him. Not that Jude notices. She's too busy sticking to the plan, and it helps that he's a total ass, anyway.

That is until a steamy business trip leads to a very different deal between these enemies, who suddenly can't seem to keep their hands off each other. Sixty percent of the time, they'll indulge in those funny, fluttering feelings that seem to manifest whenever they're together. The rest of the time? They'll be nothing but professional.

It doesn't take Theo long to realize that's easier said than done. But with a restaurant launch and a dream promotion on the line—not to mention a workplace rival hell-bent on ruining her career—Theo only has a handful of weeks to convince Jude to make that sixty percent full-time.

The Sixty/Forty Rule is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers workplace romance between a sunshine commercial designer and her grumpy client. It has a healthy dose of spice and a happily ever after. It is the first book in the Sunset Landing series of standalones.

©2022 Ellie K. Wilde (P)2024 Podium Audio

10's across the board

I literally read this in a day! This was SO FUN!

two people turned reluctant coworkers with a delicious chemistry, I ate it up.

Jude is a corporate designer who landed a project that jumpstart her career! The problem? She has to work with Theo, the restaurateur who ratted her out to her boss for standing up to his partner.

Guys. The banter, the back and forth. The “rules.” We get stuck in a rainstorm and stuck in a hotel with a leak in one room and one bed left. What could possibly happen?! (what happened was incredible).

And Jude, sweet Jude, so so scared and Theo SO GOD DAMN PATIENT!!! 😭💖 Ugh. I’m obsessed. I can’t wait to read Jenna and Finn’s story next.

It was boring.

Couldn’t even finish the last hour. It was boring and the narration was awful to listen to.