My Brother's Ruthless Boss - An Age Gap Forbidden Office Romance #1012146

On her first day, she told him he was cruel. In his own elevator. In front of a man he was firing.

Callie Prescott has six weeks, a temp badge, and four rules from her overprotective older brother. Rule one: nobody finds out they are related. Rule four: stay away from Graham Ashford, the founding partner of Nate's Boston architecture firm, the man who fires people between floors and never explains why.

By lunch, Callie is reporting directly to him.

Graham needs one person on his biggest bid who will tell him when he is wrong. He did not plan on late nights over takeout noodles, a hand-drawn alphabet, or a twenty-four-year-old designer who sees straight through the cold face he built after his best friend betrayed him. He definitely did not plan on breaking rule fourteen, the one about supervisors and the people who report to them. He wrote it himself.

Then a nor'easter traps them in a lakeside lodge in New Hampshire with a woodstove, a deadline, and nowhere left to hide. Back in Boston, the walls are glass, a rival has a phone, and her brother is up for partner in January. Falling for her brother's boss was the easy part. Telling the truth, in the right order, might cost all three of them everything.

An age gap forbidden office romance with:

• A grumpy, ruthless boss with a secret soft heart, and the sunshine designer who calls him out
• A fifteen-year age gap and a workplace rule he wrote himself
• An overprotective older brother who works for him
• Snowed in together at a lakeside lodge
• A high-stakes design competition, a scheming rival, and a public declaration
• Dual point of view, slow burn, closed door, and a guaranteed happily ever after

A standalone contemporary romance set in Boston and small-town New Hampshire, from September to the Christmas lights on the Common.