Olive Branch by Hannah Jay

Olive Cooper has come to terms with her infertility, but dating is proving hard. The only man she’s really interested in is fictional detective, Hercule Poirot. She’s certainly not interested in her bookshop co-worker, Fraser, who only hangs on to his job because he’s the boss’s son. He’s work-shy, cocky, and chronically posh. She knows his type. With his effortless charm and knicker-dropping grin, he has everyone eating out of the palm of his hand. Except Olive… The only reason Olive would take her knickers off in his presence would be to strangle him with them.
Fraser Stapleton works at his Mum’s bookshop with the most annoying woman in the world, Olive Cooper. With Olive, not for her, not that you’d know given the way she bosses him about. She doesn’t even pretend to like him. A forced smile for everyone but him, and he knows it’s forced because he’s acting at being sociable and likeable too. He’s loved by his friends who don’t mind that underneath the bravado, he’s anxious and fussy, but if other people saw that side or him? He couldn’t stand it.
When the two are forced together by Fraser’s meddling mother (Olive’s meddling boss), they find that inside Olive’s crabby shell, and beyond Fraser’s tom cat façade, are two deeply soft centres. Two people seeking comfort and affection. Maybe even love? If they can look past their differences, and worse, their similarities, will they find it in each other? And if they do… will they be able to keep it?