For Professional Reasons
Sapphic Workplace Romance
by Aurora North
Free with Kindle Unlimited
Pairing: FF (Sapphic)
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Age Gap, Boss/Employee, Praise Kink, Forbidden Workplace Romance, Ice Queen Melts, Only Soft For Her, Touch Starved, Office Romance
They kept saying it was just work. The problem was how good it felt when it stopped being work.
Mara Finch doesn’t get flustered. She’s worked too hard and moved too far to let a new job rattle her. But her new boss Devon Hart doesn’t rattle people. She dismantles them — with calm eyes, a low voice, and praise so precise it feels like a hand on the back of your neck.
Devon doesn’t do this. She doesn’t schedule unnecessary check-ins, doesn’t let her eyes linger, doesn’t find reasons to close the door. She’s spent fifteen years being the composed one, the untouchable one, the one nobody gets under.
Mara is getting under.
What starts as professional feedback turns into private attention. What starts as private attention turns into late nights, closed doors, and the kind of conversations that have nothing to do with work and everything to do with how hard Mara tries to hold still when Devon tells her she’s done well.
They both know the rules. They both know the risk. They both keep finding reasons to break every single one.
You’ll love this book if you enjoy:
✅ Sapphic age-gap romance with boss/employee tension
✅ Praise kink that could qualify as a weapon
✅ Ice queen who melts for exactly one person
✅ Slow burn that EXPLODES (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — graphic, explicit, emotional)
✅ A heroine who earns her place and a love interest who learns to let go
✅ Office sex, empty-house sex, angry makeup sex, tender morning-after sex
✅ HEA guaranteed
⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic FF scenes), strong language, depictions of anxiety and self-doubt, and themes of professional power dynamics. Intended for readers 18+.
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The Drafting Table — A scene TOO HOT for Amazon
Devon builds Mara a drafting table for their home. Mara shows her gratitude. The table gets christened in ways the manufacturer definitely did not intend. Praise kink, domestic bliss, and the filthiest, most joyful chapter in the series.
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