Claimed by the Boss

The man who destroyed her father just offered her a job.

Madeline Hart was fifteen the morning her dad died, a cardboard box of truffles in his hands, a promise on her lips.
Keep making chocolate. That's how we survive.

Ten years later, she walks back through the revolving doors of the tower that buried him.

Vance Enterprises.
Built on her father's recipes.
Bought for pennies on the dollar by the man who let his loans crush him.

She doesn't belong here. The guard knows it. The whole gleaming lobby knows it.
But her sister Sophie's hospital bills don't care about belonging.

So Maddy takes the interview with Derek Vance, the king of bitter chocolate, the heir to everything that should have been hers, the last man on earth she wants to need.

Then he makes an offer she can't refuse and can't survive.
Be at his side. Sell the world a relationship that isn't real. Save her family, and become a fragile ember in a cage of imported vanilla.

It was supposed to be a transaction.
Ganache and guilt. A merger, nothing more.
Sign the papers, save Sophie, and never let him see the cracks.

But there's the ghost of her father in the final batch.
The matriarch's ultimatum.
The export of lies she can't keep straight.
The runaway part of her that swore she'd never let a Vance close, and the slow, terrifying truth that the bitter heart she came to ruin might be the only one that understands hers.

Then everything shatters on the cold marble floor, and Derek says the only word that could undo her: "Stay."

Now Maddy has to decide whether keeping a promise to the dead means destroying the man she was never supposed to want.

And whether the boss who took everything can finally give one thing back, the truth.

Claimed by the Boss is a steamy, emotional fake-relationship romance about a runaway bride, simmering workplace tension, a family legacy, a guarded heroine, enemies-to-lovers heat, and a truth that love couldn't hide.

Perfect for readers who love billionaire boss romance, fake relationships, enemies-to-lovers, family-legacy stakes, and slow-burn workplace tension with a happy ending. A standalone romance with an earned HEA.