Touch of Class

Gillian DeGarmo has finally reached a satisfying point in her career when Daphne Milner moves into the office across the hall. The arrival would be inconvenient enough without their history as high school adversaries. Daphne’s new business as a professional cuddler strikes Gillian as incomprehensible, while Daphne finds Gillian as rigid and judgmental as ever. Sharing a workplace gives them little opportunity to avoid each other, and repeated encounters begin to challenge their familiar assumptions. Beneath the irritation lies the possibility that neither remembers their past entirely fairly. Attraction makes that discovery more difficult to dismiss. To move beyond old hostility, Gillian and Daphne must decide whether they can see each other as adults with different needs, rather than opponents trapped in the same long-running argument.