A High-Heat Workplace Romance Series
Rules were made to be broken. Just not during working hours.
The Series
Book One
She follows his rules. He makes them for her. But somewhere between clause one and forever, both of them forget what they were protecting.
Chloe Delaney needed one thing from her first week at Grind & Glory: not to get fired. Julian Thorne, COO, has a protocol for everything — including executive assistants who name their succulents and leave croissants on his desk like peace offerings. The contract starts as damage control. It becomes something neither of them planned.
Book Two
He rewrites budgets for a living. She rewrites them in the margins — in turquoise ink, with a small star sticker. He finds this unexpectedly devastating.
Penelope Vance corrected her CFO's spreadsheet on her first week. In turquoise ink. Arthur Sterling, 45, has managed Grind & Glory's finances for a decade without anyone daring to question him. She's right about the decimal. He gives her forty-eight hours to prove it. The formal agreement they sign should be the end of it. It isn't.
Book Three
He runs an empire. She runs a café inside it. The dairy swan latte changed everything — and neither of them was prepared.
Victor Cross, CEO, hasn't taken a lunch break in six years. Then he ends up in Poppy Evans' experimental café, holding a latte shaped like a swan, forgetting what he came downstairs to do. Poppy doesn't do authority figures. Victor doesn't do spontaneity. They do a great deal of arguing, a formal midnight clause, and an escalating series of encounters in spaces that stop feeling professional around Chapter Three.
The World
At Grind & Glory, the org chart is meticulous and the feelings are not. Every floor has its own rules. Every room has its own secrets.
Café
Oliver Finch has been making coffee at Grind & Glory for nine years. He knows every order before it's placed. His bar is the one place in the building where the org chart doesn't apply — the CEO gets the same flat white as the intern, and the gossip is strictly confidential.
The Floor
Floor-to-ceiling glass. A permanent sixty-six degrees. Views of Seattle that cost more per square foot than most mortgages. This is where Julian, Arthur, and Victor work — and where three otherwise sensible women repeatedly ended up having conversations that changed everything.
HR Suite
Beatrice Montgomery has enforced every rule in this building for fifteen years. She also knows which ones were only enforced selectively, which ones were never enforced at all, and exactly who was in which room when the company rewrote itself.
The Romances
Book One — Strict Measures
Executive Assistant · COO
Chloe brings warmth into every space she occupies. Julian has built a life around keeping warmth out. He doesn't reform — he just stops pretending the rules were ever really about the office.
She doesn't reform Julian. She makes the rules feel worth following.
Book Two — Strictly Confidential
Junior Analyst · CFO
Arthur has never once been corrected by someone who made him want to be corrected again. Penelope doesn't care about the hierarchy — she cares about the numbers. He finds this unexpectedly devastating.
She's right about the decimal. He's in trouble about everything else.
Book Three — Strictly Yours
Café Manager · CEO
Poppy builds things that weren't supposed to exist inside his building. Victor has spent twenty years deciding what is and isn't possible. She makes him remember that not everything runs on a balance sheet.
He makes her realise she's been undervaluing herself on purpose.
Board Member, Grind & Glory
"A man who mistakes institutional authority for personal power — and uses both against anyone who threatens the order he benefits from."
The board never forgot him. The heroines never forgave him.
The Author
Author Name writes high-heat workplace romance for readers who know the difference between professional distance and emotional armour — and enjoy watching both get dismantled, chapter by chapter. The Big Bad Boss series is set at Grind & Glory, a Seattle corporation where the org chart is meticulous and the feelings are not.
When not writing about executive heroes who fall last and hardest, Author Name believes that a well-written contract is a love letter in disguise, that good latte art is a form of power, and that the most dangerous person in any office is the one who brings the croissants.
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