After Hours at Her Place

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By day, she’s the competition. After closing, she’s the only woman I want.

Emily Shaw has spent five years building a clean, expensive skincare brand from a kitchen-table side business into a company that has finally earned a coveted SoHo pop-up. Then she discovers she has to share the space with Danielle Price.

Danielle is forty-one, gorgeous, ruthless, and the founder of a competing luxury body-care company with better investors, bigger press, and a talent for making Emily feel like she’s always one step behind.

They agree to a six-week retail truce. They break it the first night.

One furious stockroom argument becomes the kind of sex neither woman can dismiss as stress relief. So they set rules: rivalry stays public, sex stays private, and neither touches the other’s business.

Every rule breaks. Especially when the same venture fund starts circling both companies—and the investor tells Danielle the fastest path to a deal is swallowing Emily’s brand whole.

Now Emily must decide if the woman in her bed is also the woman who’ll profit from her loss. And Danielle must choose between the money that would make her company untouchable and the woman who makes her feel something no spreadsheet can capture.

You’ll love this book if you enjoy:

✅ Rivals-to-lovers with real business stakes and real heat

✅ Forced proximity in a shared retail space

✅ Secret relationship with escalating public tension

✅ Competence kink and ambitious women who challenge each other

✅ Possessive, jealous, “mine” energy

✅ Graphic FF scenes that serve the emotional arc

✅ A heroine who earns her place and a love interest who learns to let go

✅ HEA guaranteed