Fake Dating: The Auction

About Fake Dating: The Auction

When her firm puts her up for auction, the bid that wins her comes from the associate she mentored.

Beatrix Kohler has spent fifteen years as the only woman in the M&A room. At forty-one, she's earned her senior partnership through glacial control and never giving an inch. So when the partners vote to put her up as the firm's charity auction item, "lunch with the lady partner", without consulting her, she's not playing along. She's calculating the cost. The paddle about to win her belongs to her boss's nephew, a third-year associate who's been creeping on her for two years. Until another paddle lifts from the back of the room.

Caspian Vale has been Beatrix's mentee for four years. He's watched her, learned from her, wanted her. When the auction paddle goes up, he doesn't hesitate. Twelve thousand dollars of his own money, and the contract he slides across her desk that night: three months of contracted "girlfriend at firm events" appearances. The rules are his. The stakes are career-ending. The firm's no-dating-associates clause is the least of their problems when the forced proximity of a partner retreat cabin and a bathroom-stall encounter at a partners' dinner begin to rewrite every clause.

They're playing with fire in a glass-walled office. Every rule they break is a new kind of foreplay. Every public-but-discreet touch is a risk that could cost them everything they've built. When an anonymous note lands on the managing partner's desk, they have to choose: walk away clean, or walk into the gala holding hands and let the chips fall where they may.

Office romance. Fake dating. Mentor/mentee power-flip. Forced proximity. Dark workplace romance.

A standalone explicit romance with a dark, earned HEA. 18+ for explicit content.

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