Before you turn the first page
Ideally Positioned:
a spoiler-free reading guide
She has excellent taste. He has a very distracting smile. Sydney is about to get a little hotter.
Ideally Positioned is a spicy contemporary Australian romance with instant attraction, cheeky banter and the particular pleasure of meeting someone who makes you forget what you were saying. Evie Hartley can talk confidently about almost anything. Tristan Davidson is making that a little difficult.
“I like my property inspections thorough. My book boyfriends, more so.”
Elira Hope
Consider this a first look at your next reading obsession. A little flirting, a little Sydney sunshine, and just enough of Evie and Tristan to whet your appetite.
Meet Evie Hartley
Evelyn to the professional world, Evie to friends and family. At Hartcliff Homes, she sells luxury real estate with polished presentation, quick thinking and a very well-stocked handbag.
“Excellent taste in interiors. Questionable intentions in the bedroom.”
Elira Hope
She appreciates beautiful interiors, good coffee and a man worth looking twice at. Her professional smile is excellent. The thoughts she is having behind it? Perhaps best saved for after the inspection.
Meet Tristan Davidson
Tristan works in council garbage services, drives a red-and-black 1971 Valiant Charger called Valerie, and has a smile that makes a perfectly ordinary conversation feel like flirting.
“A man who works with his hands? Naturally, I have follow-up questions.”
Elira Hope
He is funny, easy to talk to and entirely too distracting at close range. There is warmth beneath the cheek, and Evie notices both. Along with rather a lot of other things she really ought to stop noticing during business hours.
The chemistry arrives early
These two do not need much encouragement to fancy each other. The spark is there early, in the teasing, the eye contact and the excuses to keep a conversation going a little longer.
Expect plenty of heat, explicit consensual intimacy and kink, with laughter close at hand. This is a romance for readers who enjoy the flirting as much as what follows, and a heroine whose inner commentary can be every bit as entertaining as the man in front of her.
A Sydney you can feel
Takeaway coffees, beautiful terraces, harbour light and salt air. Sydney’s Inner West, harbour and coast give Evie and Tristan a world that feels busy, familiar and full of possibilities. There is always somewhere to be, and occasionally a very good reason to linger.
For a closer look without plot reveals, explore the Sydney settings in Ideally Positioned.
Is this your kind of spicy Australian romance?
If you enjoy explicit on-page intimacy, a practical working hero and a heroine with a sharp inner commentary, this is a place to begin. Tristan is a council worker, rather than a billionaire or a property developer. Evie’s luxury real-estate career gives their working lives a very different rhythm.
The attraction is immediate. Building trust takes more than chemistry, so expect humour and heat alongside family pressure, secrecy and difficult choices. This is a contemporary Australian romance with emotional stakes, rather than an invitation to leave every serious subject at the door.
The novel contains explicit consensual sexual content. Check the content note below if you prefer to know the heavier themes before reading. A sample lets you try the voice and the banter without committing to the whole book.
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Before you settle in
Ideally Positioned is for adult readers. If you like to check content themes before choosing a book, you can open the spoiler-free note below.
Read the content note
Explicit consensual sexual content, coarse language, alcohol and drug references, coercive control, blackmail, assault, addiction themes and violence.
Find a comfortable spot. Put your coffee within reach. Let Evie introduce you to the reason she keeps losing her train of thought.