Why You'll Love This
An ice-queen CEO who controls what her assistant wears to work is either a red flag or the hottest thing you've ever read — this book commits fully to the latter.
- Great if you want: a sapphic age-gap romance with real power-play tension
- The experience: short, steamy, and fast — reads in a single sitting
- The writing: Hayes keeps the dynamic charged without softening the edges
- Skip if: workplace power dynamics in romance make you uncomfortable
About This Book
When Alice accepts a job as personal assistant to the powerful Joanne Morgan, she tells herself it's purely practical — she needs the rent money, nothing more. But Joanne is no ordinary employer, and the arrangement she offers is no ordinary job. What unfolds between these two women is a slow-burn collision of control, desire, and vulnerability set against the charged atmosphere of a high-stakes corporate world. Hayes understands that the real tension in a story like this isn't just physical — it's the question of who holds power, and what happens when that power starts to shift.
At just over a hundred pages, Working for the CEO moves with real efficiency, never wasting a scene. Hayes writes with a blunt, confident hand that suits her characters — particularly Joanne, whose cool authority practically radiates off the page. The ice-queen dynamic is well-worn territory, but Hayes gives it genuine heat and unexpected emotional weight, making the eventual thaw feel earned rather than convenient. Short enough to read in a single sitting, it lingers noticeably longer than that.
