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Better Scandal
Paperback
Publisher: Guy Roberts
Published: Aug 24 2025
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
When a thirteen-second clip yanks speechwriter Elena Torres into the worst kind of fame-viral without context-City Hall wants optics, not truth. Enter Gabe Park, a rule-loving archivist whose natural habitat is quiet rooms and sharpened pencils. Their solution? A fake relationship that buys Elena time to work in the stacks-and puts the archive's rules on center stage.
What begins as damage control becomes a document-driven mystery: a misfiled hydrology addendum, a routing-book dash, a whiteboard snapshot that says DUMP HYDROLOGY ADDENDUM, and a cassette where strategists swap risk for concern. With an FOI specialist, a retired clerk who does minutes, not gossip, and a podcaster learning to love silence, Elena and Gabe build a public evidence site with redactions and receipts-choosing process over spectacle, pencils over podiums.
As the river rises and a fixer threatens injunctions, their not-quite-pretend partnership turns careful and real. To save her integrity, Elena may have to resign. To keep public trust, Gabe must pick rules over comfort-then write new ones.
Better Scandal is a smart, slow-burn contemporary romance where competence is sexy, transparency is heroic, and love files correctly. Perfect for readers who like fake dating with grown-up stakes, government-adjacent banter, and happy endings built on receipts.
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