MAKING A SPLASH

MAKING A SPLASH

Contemporary Romance / Romantic Comedy

The Balcony Files, Book 1  •  Dual First Person POV  •  HEA

She ruined his suit. He ruined her plan. And now they have six weeks to plan the most important gala of the year—together.

Juliet Santoro is loud, chaotic, and unapologetically herself. She runs a struggling plant shop from her overflowing balcony garden in a candy-coloured building in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter. Life is perfectly imperfect—until apartment 4B gets a new tenant.

Ethan Calloway is a British architect on a six-month secondment, and he didn’t fly to Barcelona to befriend the disaster of a woman next door who floods his balcony with her over-watered succulents and blasts vintage soul music at seven a.m.

Their neighbourly feud escalates from passive-aggressive sticky notes to a full-blown prank war—one the entire building gleefully takes sides in. But when a burst pipe forces Ethan into Juliet’s apartment for a week, their bickering starts sounding a lot like flirting, and the thin wall between hatred and something far more terrifying begins to crack.

Six weeks. One gala. Two people who are very bad at admitting they were wrong—and very good at everything else.

Tropes

Primary Tropes

• Enemies-to-Lovers   Grumpy × Sunshine
• Forced Proximity — Neighbourly Feud to Shared Space
• Workplace Romance   He Falls First
• Meet-Cute in the Rain   Slow Burn

Emotional Themes

• Chaos as Courage — Juliet’s disorder isn’t a flaw; it’s how she lives fully
• Control vs. Surrender — Ethan’s precision meets something he can’t blueprint
• Vulnerability as Strength — the prank war ends; the honesty begins

Book Details

Genre:  Contemporary Romance / Romantic Comedy

Heat Level:  High-Heat, Open-Door (explicit intimate scenes)

POV:  Dual First Person (Juliet & Ethan)

Ending:  HEA (Happily Ever After)

Setting:  Barcelona — Gothic Quarter

Series:  The Balcony Files — Book 1 (standalone readable; each apartment in the building gets its own romance)

Making a Splash

A guaranteed HEA. One flooded balcony. And a British architect who had absolutely no plan for this.

Perfect for readers who love grumpy-sunshine banter, chaotic heroines who refuse to apologise for taking up space, and love stories set in sun-soaked cities where the whole neighbourhood is rooting for them.