Adopted by the Boss

Eden Vasquez was hired at twenty-two as an assistant and married at twenty-five because her boss, Calder Vance, told her in a boardroom that it was the cleanest way to keep her. Nine years on she is chief operating officer on paper and unpaid wife in practice: he reads her emails, owns her calendar, and corrects her in front of staff like she's still typing his memos. When a graduate named Theo is publicly humiliated for a mistake Eden made, she recognizes the machinery — because she has been maintaining it. She starts moving her own signature off his reach, and then she finds the NDA. It has one name on it. Hers. What follows is six weeks of watching, copying, apologizing to Theo, and staying quiet until a board meeting she can finally walk out of. A dark bully marriage-in-crisis romance about a woman who built the cage, and learned the lock.