"A constant vigilance required not to stare too long into those glacial blue eyes for fear of someone seeing it. Reading something into it. But his lips, so inviting, wanting him to pull her powerfully into an embrace with him. To kiss her fervidly, taking her to that place she held only in her thoughts, but knew intuitively the feeling was mutual". Set in the heart of bustling Mercury City, Kendall Divine finds herself at the centre of a simmering storm. From her small town beginnings, she was destined for more. Her career was on the rise, the corners of power beckoned. But so did something she had never anticipated - an insatiable desire within that threatened to consume her and everything she held true. Kendall was no stranger to the corporate battlefield, but when her boss, the enigmatic and magnetic Adam Intrigue entered her life, lines blurred. And boundaries shattered. He was the embodiment of authority, a man with a wife and marriage teetering on the brink, and…a dark secret he couldn't escape. Kendall's involvement in his world was a conflictual dance of ambition and temptation. With the clock ticking, Kendall found herself ensnared in a web of intrigue and danger, torn between her career and her smouldering passion for Adam, unaware of the repercussions this desire and his secret could unleash. In this steamy romance thriller, the stakes are high, the secrets deeper, and passions hotter than the city's midnight lights. Kendall’s pursuit of ambition, truth, and love would lead her through a maze of twists and turns, where the line between right and wrong are blurred, and the consequences of her choices could unravel everything.

"Suddenly, his tight grip on my waist starts to loosen, and he moves his face close to my ear. “Do you still think it's not revealing?” he asks, his words slow as he whispers in my ear. I smell his cologne with him so close to me, and its divine. I feel his lips brush my ears before he brings his face in front of me. His minty breath fans my neck as I feel a shiver go down my spine. God, what just happened? I’m so confused. I should feel violated with him touching me, but instead, I’m biting my lips to hold back a moan. I don't understand what’s wrong with me." Eleanor Brown’s new job at the Crawford Company was supposed to be her ticket to a better life, a chance to escape her past and pay off her debts. Instead, she finds herself under the scrutiny of Jason Crawford, the company’s distrustful billionaire CEO, who believes she’s a schemer out to exploit his family’s wealth. Hired through his grandfather’s influence, Eleanor faces hostility from Jason and sabotage from his fiercely protective secretary, Vivienne. As workplace tensions ignite unexpected chemistry, Eleanor and Jason are drawn into a whirlwind of passion and mistrust. But when long-buried secrets unravel—revealing a heartbreaking connection between Eleanor’s past and Jason’s deepest pain—their fragile bond is tested. Can Eleanor prove her love is genuine, or will the weight of the truth shatter their chance at forever?

JAKE CARRERO and EMMA ANDERSON: the Boss and PA who went from colleagues, to friends, to lovers - and who have been torn apart by his stupid mistake. So much in their relationship has been unremedied or left unsaid. And neither of them knows if they can repair the damage and find a way back to each other. Not only is their relationship flawed and in need a better footing, but they still have problems hanging over them in the form of Marissa Hartley.Then there are the friends who are just as heartbroken and the mothers who do nothing but disappoint. This is the final instalment of the Emma and Jake story. Will it be the final straw for their relationships? Characters that will make you laugh, cry and gasp - and maybe feel a little warm inside. Contains some mature, adult content, and language.