Evie can sell the dream.
Letting Tristan in is another matter.

Evelyn Hartley has a professional smile for every vendor, a diary with no breathing room and a family agency she cannot afford to let down.

Tristan Davidson arrives in council shorts, saves her from a very bad morning and refuses to be particularly impressed by any of it.

She should buy him a thank-you coffee and return to business. Instead, there are messages she keeps rereading, a red-and-black Valiant she keeps looking for, and vacant listings becoming considerably less professional.

But private desire does not stay private when someone is determined to use it. As an ex-partner threatens the life Evie has worked to hold together, attraction becomes the easy part. Trusting Tristan, confronting what she has accepted and choosing what she wants will cost her far more than composure.

Set among Sydney’s terraces, harbour views and property theatre, with the South Coast offering room to breathe, Ideally Positioned is a romance about wanting someone fiercely while learning to keep a life of your own.