The Ex I'd Love to Hate
The Lasker Brothers • Book 3
by Nadia Lee
Why You'll Love This
Fourteen years of buried resentment explode the moment she realizes her new boss is the man who broke her — and he thinks she's the villain.
- Great if you want: enemies-to-lovers with real history and mutual grievance
- The experience: emotionally charged and fast-moving with satisfying tension throughout
- The writing: Lee keeps both protagonists sympathetic while making you distrust them equally
- Skip if: workplace power dynamics in romance are a hard stop for you
About This Book
Some wounds don't fully close — they just wait. For the heroine of this slow-burn second-chance romance, that wound has a name: Grant Lasker, her first love, her worst betrayal, and now, impossibly, her boss. Fourteen years of careful distance collapse overnight when financial necessity forces her back into his orbit, only to discover he's been carrying his own version of the story — one that casts her as the villain. With her grandfather's care hanging in the balance and her dignity perpetually under siege, she has to survive working for the man she's spent over a decade trying to forget, while quietly wondering if everything she believed about their past was wrong.
Nadia Lee writes romantic tension with a steady, patient hand — the kind that lets resentment and longing coil together until readers can't easily separate them. The third book in the Lasker Brothers series stands on its own while rewarding readers who've followed the family dynamic, and at nearly 500 pages, it earns its length through character depth rather than filler. The dialogue crackles, the emotional reversals land hard, and the pacing knows exactly when to slow down and make you feel it.
