Gian Crane, youngest of six, the family underachiever, started out with reasonable goals but now, at thirty-two, the sum of her life is an uninspiring job and one major broken heart. If it wasn't for her best friend, Maddie, she'd have no joy in her life at all. 

Then a management shuffle elevates Gian to the new boss' Personal Assistant, a boss who's reserved, icily attractive, and a little older. Just Gian's type. No, Gian will not complicate her life by foolishly allowing herself to be wildly attracted to her new boss. That can't go anywhere, can it? 

Flynn Fox finds her fortieth birthday looming and what does she have to show for it? A failed marriage. A son who doesn't seem to care if she's part of his life or not. And she's still allowing family pressures to leech the colour from her life, while her supposed 'unnatural tendencies' have seen her shuffled out of the limelight in the family company. 

She's under no illusions about why her father suddenly wants her to take charge of the struggling Kingstone branch of Fox and Sons. If it fails it won't be on him. Is this her chance to show her worth, even if it means going against her father's instructions? 

Into Flynn's life steps Gian and attraction flares. But Gian is younger, and unlike any of the women Flynn is usually attracted to, and she's Gian's boss. If she acted on this attraction it would be totally inappropriate. Wouldn't it? 

Revisit the location of the FRIENDS AND LOVERS series. This is book 4 and is a stand-alone.