Summary and Teaser
Rules of the Manor
I showed up for a housekeeping interview.
Instead...
I accidentally walked into the wrong wing of the Whitmore Estate.
The private wing.
Cillian Whitmore—the disciplined billionaire heir I’d secretly had a crush on since high school—mistook me for the escort his cousin had arranged.
I should have stopped him.
I should have told him the truth the moment he touched me.
But after spending years secretly crushing on him...
The moment he kissed me, I couldn’t make myself push him away.
I let him have me.
Only afterward did I finally explain the truth.
I wasn’t the escort.
I was there for a housekeeping interview.
Now the man I’d spent six years trying to forget is staring at me in complete disbelief.
“You’re not the escort?”
“No... I was here for the housekeeping interview.”
“Then why didn’t you stop me?”
“Because... you kissed me, and I didn’t want you to stop.”
The misunderstanding should have been the end of the story.
Instead...
He hires me.
First as a housekeeper.
Then he offers me the job of his executive assistant.
Now I’m expected to work beside the man who was once my biggest high school crush...
The man who insists what happened between us was a mistake.
The man who tells me we need to forget that day ever happened.
The man who’s now being pushed into a relationship with another woman to create New York’s next billionaire power couple.
“Working for me changes nothing.”
“It changes everything.”
“It won’t happen again.”
“That’s exactly what I’m afraid of.”
Every hallway reminds me of him.
Every glance feels dangerous.
Every day I spend in his office makes it harder to remember why we’re supposed to stay professional.
Because the biggest mistake of our lives...
Might turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to us.
A slow-burn billionaire romance featuring an old-money gentleman hero, a scholarship heroine, forced proximity, workplace tension, family expectations, mistaken identity, emotional angst, forbidden attraction, and one life-changing misunderstanding that changes everything.
