Lust, Loathing, & Architecture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798850094140)

Mal: Hollis Ward is the distraction that keeps on giving. After a scandalous encounter at a party, we decide we're better off as friends-or as close to friends as we'll ever be. That is until our lives become far more entangled than either of us are comfortable with. We end up on a project together and, surprise surprise, he's impossible to work with. I'd be better off arguing with my camera than reasoning with him. So why am I drawn to him anyway? Neither of us find it necessary to let anyone else know just how close we've gotten, so we choose to keep that information private-for now. But his being my best friend's brother makes things a bit more complicated...

Hollis: I don't think I've ever run into another person quite like Mal Brooks; infuriating, unreasonable, obstinate-all words she'd probably use to describe me. For someone with flawed logic and even more flawed priorities, she sure acts like she has it all together. She's a temptation in sheep's clothing so it's best I avoid her, but our circumstances make that impossible. Besides, I don't want a relationship and neither does she. I have my own things going on that no one needs to be privy to. But the more the lines begin to blur, the more I find that the demons I thought I had put to rest are not gone at all. Instead, they're going to bring down everything around me, and the only one to blame is myself.

Lust, Loathing, & Architecture is the second book in the Monteska University series. It is a series of standalone stories that can be read in any order, but it is recommended that they are read in publishing order.