“Three cold executives. Three women who refuse to be filed away. One board predator who turns love into leverage.”
At Apex Global Holdings, the offices are glass, the bosses are ice, and joy is treated as a regulatory violation. Then, one by one, three relentlessly warm women walk onto the top floor and refuse to dim themselves for anyone — least of all the formidable men who run the place.
The Worst Boss is a trilogy of standalone grumpy-sunshine workplace romances, each with its own couple, its own heat, and its own hard-won happily-ever-after — all shadowed by Oliver Thorne, the board director determined to weaponize their hearts against them.
Banter, slow burn, color-coded chaos, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after in every book.
Book One — The Asset (Penelope & Julian)
“He calculates risk for a living. She just became his biggest one.”
On the forty-fifth floor, emotion is an expensive inefficiency — until Penelope Sterling arrives with neon-yellow sticky notes, a wobbly flamingo pen, and a campaign to be taken seriously as a strategist instead of the assistant who fetches the dark roast.
Julian Vance is the Chief Operating Officer who schedules his haircuts three months out and treats corporate guidelines as scripture — and the only person who makes his sterile fortress feel worth being in is the woman dismantling it one sticky note at a time. When a surprise audit threatens the billion-dollar merger he has sacrificed everything to protect, it is her color-coded brilliance that saves him.
But a single stolen touch beneath the boardroom table — and one photograph in the wrong hands — could hand the board the weapon it needs to destroy them both.
Alternating First Person (Penelope & Julian) • HEA
Book Two — The Merger (Beatrix & Gideon)
“He audits everything. He never accounted for her.”
Beatrix Finch runs the most colorful department at Apex Global on glitter pens, paper lanterns, and data far sharper than anyone gives her credit for. Then the board sends a man to delete it.
Gideon Croft, Head of Acquisitions, lives by absolute predictability — minimalist desk, black ink, a luxury watch set three minutes fast so he is never caught off guard. He arrives to audit her department into oblivion and instead moves his entire office onto her neon floor, telling himself it is for accuracy, not for her.
As a mountain retreat throws them together, Oliver Thorne begins whispering ‘favoritism’ to anyone who will listen — because he does not want the truth. He wants leverage.
Alternating First Person (Beatrix & Gideon) • HEA
Book Three — The Takeover (Clementine & Arthur)
“She runs on sunshine. He runs on rules. The takeover was never the one he expected.”
On her debut day, Clementine Albright marches into the coldest corner office in Manhattan with raspberry croissants, lemon-yellow folders, and a grinning ceramic cloud named Nimbus. If this floor treats joy as a regulatory violation, she intends to be the chief offender.
Arthur Kingsley is the Chief Executive Officer who inherited his grandfather’s empire along with the belief that isolation is the only safety — until a sunshine assistant with a smart mouth begins dismantling his fortress one sticky note at a time.
But Oliver Thorne wants the empire for himself, and a CEO distracted by his assistant is the opening he has been circling for — as the threat sharpens toward a hostile takeover.
Alternating First Person (Clementine & Arthur) • HEA
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