Forbidden Heat: A BWWM Office Affair

For a woman who designs skyscrapers, falling for her boss is the one risk she never put in the blueprint. Zara Washington is one of Chicago's brightest rising stars in architecture, a woman whose ambition is her shield. A past betrayal taught her to be guarded, to protect the soul she pours into her work. She has a plan, and it doesn't include complications. But when the firm's powerful and charismatic senior partner, Ben Carter, tasks her to co-lead a career-making project, the walls around her heart begin to shatter.
Forced into late-night sessions fueled by a simmering, unspoken desire, their professional lines blur into a dangerous game. He sees the brilliant woman she hides from the world, and she sees the raw vulnerability behind his billion-dollar legacy. Every shared laugh, every accidental touch, stokes a forbidden fire. But this affair isn't just a fire that could consume her career-it threatens to ignite a scandal that could burn them both.
In a world built of glass and steel, the one thing they can't design is an escape. Step into the world of Carter & Associates and discover a passion that breaks all the rules.