Tropes: Boss/Employee Romance, Secret Identity, Masked Stranger, Workplace Tension, Emotional Healing, Open Door
Spice Level: 🌶🌶🌶
Format: eBook
Series: X, Y, Z Trilogy Book 1 (Works as a Standalone; Timeline Goes Backward)
Ella’s life is spiraling into chaos with the purchase of the publishing agency she works for. Determined to release a bit of the tension she accepts the proposal of a man that goes by X at a club. With her blind-folded and him not speaking she gives over control to regain a bit of herself. Meanwhile, her boss Max Delaney demands she stay with the firm and will not take no for an answer. No matter that Ella doesn’t agree with any of the companies practices.
I am
torn on this book. This is a series where are the background characters already
have their HEA and moving forward is going back in time. I won’t be reading
further in the series for just that reason. That being said, if you want to
read this book as a stand-alone it works well in that way.
It is
an open door contemporary romance with dark romance aspects, although it is
more grey than actual black. It is also a boss/employee romance book and the
FMC is a romance publisher. Loved the little snippets of her reading romance
books while dealing with everything else in the story.
Full disclaimer, this book makes it
out that the FMC is well on her way to becoming an alcoholic for the first part
of the book. She slowly gets her life together, but if that is something you
can’t handle reading there is your warning.
The MMC hides his identity for the
first little bit, but it was obvious from the beginning who it was. I really
enjoyed this book, but again, I fully intend to read it as a stand-alone and
not touch the rest of the series. That being said, I would absolutely read more
by this author in the future, just in a different series.
This book is available on Amazon
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You’ll Love This Book If You Enjoy:
- Masked stranger / secret identity romances
- Boss/employee tension
- Power exchange dynamics
- Grey-toned contemporary romance
- Publishing industry settings
- Open-door spice with emotional depth
A solid, spicy read with layered tension—best enjoyed as a standalone if you’re not into reverse-timeline series structures.
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