by Vi Keeland
First published 2022
Reese tumbles into the worst first impression of her life before her job interview even begins. A stranger barges into her fitting room, they both yell, and she slams the door on him. Minutes later, that same man sits across the desk from her. Merrick Crawford is the hiring manager, and he absolutely remembers her. He proves it by telling her to check her armpit mid-interview, a callback to exactly why she had ducked into that fitting room in the first place. She does not expect a callback. She gets one anyway. When she pushes Merrick on why, he admits the truth: his board forced the hire, and he picked her because he expected her to fail. Reese decides to take the job and prove him wrong. She calls it the boss project. What she does not plan for is that working alongside Merrick will pull her in directions that have nothing to do with performance reviews. Getting involved with your boss is a bad idea on paper. Reese knows this. She takes the job anyway, and then she keeps making choices she cannot quite categorize as mistakes.
Genres: fiction, romance, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: humorous, romantic, steamy, tension-filled, witty
Tropes: boss-romance, enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity
Period: 21st-century
351 pages · Paperback · C. Scott Publishing Corp.