He hired her to manage his reputation. He never expected her to see past it.Nora Fielding needs a job, badly, and the communications director role at Ellery Innovations pays enough to make her sudden career pivot feel almost survivable -- if she can just survive the notoriously difficult founder who's fired her last two predecessors inside a month. Griffin Ellery doesn't do press junkets, doesn't do small talk, and definitely doesn't do the polished, quotable version of himself everyone keeps trying to package. What he does, unexpectedly, is remember exactly how Nora takes her coffee, show up at midnight to fix his own disasters instead of hiding from them, and slowly, infuriatingly, become the one person in the building she can't stop thinking about.As Nora turns his chaos into headlines and his silences into something worth trusting, the line between managing him and falling for him gets harder to hold. But Griffin is guarding a history he's spent three years refusing to discuss, and when it finally surfaces, Nora has to decide whether a man built on careful silences can actually learn to be known -- and whether she's brave enough to stop protecting her own heart long enough to find out.A slow-burn, closed-door workplace romance about honesty, second chances, and falling for the one person who was never supposed to be the story.WHAT'S INSIDE:- A slow-burn workplace romance with real professional stakes- A guarded, reclusive hero learning to let himself be known- A whip-smart heroine who refuses to manage the truth away- Witty banter, late-night crisis management, and a rain-soaked confession- A satisfying happily ever after and a one-year-later proposal epiloguePERFECT FOR READERS WHO LOVE:- Enemies-to-lovers and grumpy-hero romance- Office and workplace romance with a power-imbalance twist- Slow-burn tension with witty, banter-heavy dialogue- Clean and wholesome romance with real emotional depth- Guarded-hero-learns-to-trust storylines Read more
