He's the last man on her "absolutely not" list. Which is exactly the problem.

Wren Callahan doesn't do rich men. Growing up broke taught her that money always comes with a price tag attached to your dignity — and after her father's business collapsed and took her family's name down with it, she swore she'd build her career on merit alone, not a man's bank account. So when she lands the fellowship of a lifetime at Kane Industries, she has one rule: don't get noticed for the wrong reasons.

Then she spills scalding coffee down the front of Ford Kane's three-thousand-dollar suit in the elevator on day one — and finds out the infuriating, entirely-too-gorgeous man she just baptized in espresso is the twenty-eight-year-old CEO she's about to spend the summer working for.

Ford built his empire from nothing, and he's not about to lose it now — not with a hostile board vote weeks away and every reporter in Chicago hunting for a scandal to hand his enemies. He doesn't have time for the sharp-tongued new adult intern who somehow makes boardrooms feel less like a cage. He definitely doesn't have time to notice the way she blushes when he calls her Callahan, or how much he looks forward to her ruining his mornings.

But wanting her is the one risk his empire can't survive. If the board finds out he's fallen for the intern under a strict no-fraternization contract, it hands them exactly the ammunition they need to force him out. And if anyone finds out Wren got close to the boss, every ounce of the reputation she's clawed together will collapse right along with it.

He warned himself not to want her. She warned herself not to need him. Neither one of them listened.

Tropes: Billionaire CEO • New Adult Romance • Forbidden Office Romance • He Falls First • Dual POV • Opposites Attract • Found Family