The Ruthless Chief

Everyone at Kestrel Broadcasting knows the rule: when the new owner walks in, you update your résumé. Tessa Vaughn updates hers. Then Nolan Rourke reads it, looks up, and gives her the morning show. He's twenty-two years older. He's her boss. He hasn't smiled in a meeting since 2013. And he just bet his entire turnaround plan on a woman nobody at the network believed in. She can run a newsroom. She can fix a ratings slide. She cannot, apparently, stop thinking about the way he says her name. The show is seventeen months from cancellation. The attraction is seventeen days from unmanageable. And the board is watching both.