Neat but Naughty | HF 27

• Age Gap
• Enemies to Lovers
• Small Town
• Workplace
• Holiday Romance

SMALL TOWN RULES. BIG TOWN SECRETS & A BOSS SHE LOVES TO HATE.

BENTLEY
My rival, Francheska Taylor, is chaos in jingle-bell booties. Fiery, stubborn, and completely off-limits. She glares; I grin. She scowls; I flirt. Underneath the sparks and snark, something real is brewing. She’s my employee, ten years my junior. I should know better than to even think this way. Because if she ever learns the truth about who I am - and why I came to Evermere - it’ll blow up everything between us.
Still, some disasters are worth the risk.
This Christmas, all bets are off.

FRANCHESKA
Coming home to Evermere was supposed to be simple: fix Dad’s business, dodge small-town gossip, and leave again. Then he shows up - Bentley Cartwright. Older, smug as sin, and irritatingly good-looking. Worse, he works for the company trying to crush everything my dad built. I hate him by association. But one stack of overdue notices and a ‘totally coincidental’ run-in later, he’s my new boss.
Now we’re breaking every rule we swore we’d keep,
and it’s getting harder to pretend I don’t care.