By a Thread: A Grumpy Boss Romantic Comedy

When Dominic Russo accidentally gets a stranger fired after a spectacularly bad day, he figures that's the end of it. He's wrong. Very, very wrong.

Ally Morales lands in Dominic's Manhattan magazine office courtesy of his well-meaning mother, and she's absolutely nothing like the quiet, unobtrusive assistant he desperately needs. She's loud, relentlessly sunny, and completely unintimidated by his signature death glare — a combination that should be infuriating. And it is. Mostly. Except for the part where her sharp wit keeps catching him off guard and those brown eyes won't stop haunting his after-hours imagination.

Ally knows exactly what kind of man her grumpy boss is — the kind who barks orders, clears rooms, and once cost her a perfectly good job over a pizza incident she definitely hasn't forgiven him for. Working for him is purely a means to an end. She isn't falling for the brooding billionaire cliché, no matter how many times he almost-smiles at one of her jokes.

This contemporary romantic comedy crackles with the kind of push-and-pull tension that makes workplace romance utterly irresistible. Lucy Score and Erin Mallon deliver a hero who's all sharp edges slowly worn smooth by the one woman stubborn enough to stand her ground, and a heroine whose warmth is genuinely contagious.

Dominic started this. But Ally just might finish it — in the best possible way.