Hello, Privet! #1 : Hello/Привет (Hello, Privet! #1)

Sophie Rosenbaum and Anton Akhmerov have one thing in common: they can’t stand each other.

Sparks fly, tempers flare and cultures clash when the quirky Sophie is hired to become the PR assistant of the Russian Bad Boy of Tennis, a former world number 1 more famous for his fiery temper and for dating supermodels than winning Grand Slams. The Russian may just have met his match in the feisty Sophie... that is—if they don’t kill each other first.


Sophie Rosenbaum, a 21-year old former child prodigy and now Harvard dropout, wants to prove to everyone that she's "okay." Her plan: become independent from her well-meaning but smothering family by getting an internship at Bergstrom & Bergstrom PR, which coincidentally ran her stepfather's gubernatorial campaign. What she didn't plan on is the plot twist who walks right into her life (or rather, her psychotherapist brother's waiting room) in the person of Anton Akhmerov, more commonly known as The Russian Bad Boy of Tennis.

Anton Akhmerov, five-time Grand Slam champion (except for Wimbledon, which continues to elude him), seems to have everything — money, fame, and a supermodel girlfriend — except his ranking has fallen to 200 after a shoulder injury. The only thing he cares about is becoming number one again. His manager tries everything to help him get his head on straight: first there's psychotherapy to deal with his racket-breaking problem; and then there's his new assistant Sophie, who thinks he's nothing more than a self-conceited jock.

They might be from different worlds, but as their paths cross, they find their lives inevitably changing in new and unexpected ways.


Book 1 of a new adult romantic comedy series written in a multi-POV he-said she-said style with the main protagonists and minor characters alternately telling their side of the story.