Surviving the boss from hell is hard. Falling for him is even harder.

When a tragic incident sends my New Zealand workplace into chaos, an interim CEO arrives to take control and protect the interests of our foreign parent company. Neil Kingston is guarded, prickly, and watchful—more stealth assassin than stuffy bigshot. He lives up to his reputation when he ruthlessly eliminates half the team, including me, Amelia Cross, the office good girl and underpaid workaholic. At just twenty-seven I’ve lost both my parents, failed an expensive med degree, and can now boast that I’ve also been fired.

Ideally, I’d never see my ex-boss again but Mr. Kingston has other plans in mind, and I find myself drawn to him in a way I never expected. He’s cunning, enigmatic, seductive... and totally off-limits. Working together means sinking deeper into his secretive world, but as my fascination grows, so do the forces that threaten to tear us apart.

Clashing with the CEO is a slow burn, enemies to lovers romance with an age gap, set against a shadowy backdrop of corporate politics and dangerous succession schemes.