Workplace romance runs on proximity and stakes: the person you want is also the person who shares a decision that matters. The novels here are set in a consultancy, an architecture firm, a restaurant kitchen, a lakeside marina, a restoration project, a band on tour and a firm under investigation.
Each novel is finished, and Every chapter is free. Warm stories fade to black; Steamy stories allow more sensual and emotional detail without graphic description. The heat label on each book lets you choose.
Completed · 18 chapters · Steamy
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Read this if you want colleagues who are concealing different reasons for being there.
Delilah and Ash rewrite a recovery firm's misleading customer scripts together. She answers to seven customers; he answers to the founder who wants a leak identified.
Their shared work gives them reasons to admire each other before either knows what that closeness could cost the people outside the room.
Read the story and content notes →Completed · 16 chapters · Warm
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Read this if you want enemies to lovers with a deadline.
Her consultancy has one rule, no clients with history, and the man who once humiliated her needs his company saved in six weeks.
Enemies to lovers at a quicker pace than a slow burn, built on sharp, witty banter.
Read the story and content notes →Completed · 15 chapters · Warm
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Read this if you want a secret with a career on the line.
Her firm forbids any contact with the anonymous investor funding her tower, and her partnership depends on it.
A secret relationship rather than a rivalry: tender rather than combative.
Read the story and content notes →Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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Read this if you want rivals who have to cook together.
A charity TV series puts a chef in one kitchen for six weeks with the critic who savaged her first restaurant.
A slow burn with pride and humour, in a kitchen at full pressure.
Read the story and content notes →Completed · 19 chapters · Warm
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Read this if you want colleagues, not rivals, and real consequences.
An engineer and an architect share a restoration project and Thursday evenings on its roof. She is married.
The most serious story here, about a good marriage and a line crossed. Content note: infidelity.
Read the story and content notes →Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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Read this if you want the job to be a stage.
The two songwriters of a folk band fall into it six months into a sold-out tour, with a crew, a label and eleven wages depending on the song they sing to each other every night.
The only one set on the road, told by her, where the colleagues are a band and the office is a tour bus.
Read the story and content notes →Completed · 15 chapters · Warm
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Read this if you want a gentler lakeside romance where love does not settle the business vote.
June and Nate own equal shares of a marina. Their first summer together must leave room for her winter consultancy and an honest no to his workshop plan.
Warm and closed-door, with a history through her brother's closest friend and a relationship that has to work beyond one season.
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