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📖 Paperback Edition — He was supposed to be a performance problem. He became the only performance that mattered.

Lucas Reed is the sharpest analyst in the department and the biggest headache on Daniel Hayes’s team. He asks dangerous questions in meetings, picks holes in the boss’s slides, and hasn’t met a boundary he doesn’t want to test. His work is exceptional. His attitude is a disciplinary file waiting to happen.

Daniel Hayes is the VP of Corporate Strategy — controlled, precise, devastating in presentations, and absolutely determined not to let one mouthy analyst dismantle the professional composure he’s spent eight years rebuilding. The last time Daniel let someone close at work, it destroyed his career. He transferred. He rebuilt. He swore: never again.

But Lucas Reed doesn’t follow rules. Lucas pokes. Lucas pushes. Lucas stands in Daniel’s office at midnight and says show me — and when Daniel finally breaks, the explosion isn’t just physical. It’s structural. One kiss turns into ground rules. Ground rules turn into a secret affair. And the secret affair turns into something that neither of them can contain — not behind glass walls, not behind performance reviews, and not behind the careful, coded language they’ve built to hide the most dangerous thing either of them has ever felt.

When HR starts watching and a career-altering promotion forces their hand, Daniel and Lucas have to choose: keep hiding, break apart, or blow up everything they’ve built and rebuild it — together, in daylight, where love isn’t a liability but a foundation.

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ High Heat • MM Office Romance by Jace Wilder

Tropes: Enemies to Lovers • Boss/Employee • Office Romance • Grumpy/Sunshine • Praise Kink • Power Exchange • Secret Relationship • Forced Proximity • Touch Starved • He Falls First • Bi MC • Jealousy

A grumpy boss who breaks pens when he’s jealous, a bratty analyst who’d rather be punished than ignored, and a guaranteed HEA.

Paperback details: 6 × 9 in • 326 pages • cream paper • matte cover. Includes a link to the exclusive bonus chapter, “The Quarterly Review.”

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit on-page MM sex (graphic, detailed, frequent), a boss/employee power dynamic explored with full consent negotiation, praise kink, power exchange, light restraint, edging and denial, workplace secrecy, a past relationship betrayal (off-page), a jealousy subplot, and career stakes with HR involvement (resolved positively). All sex is between consenting adults with safewords and aftercare. Intended for readers 18+.

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