Not Safe for Work

When engineer Trishara Malik watches the promotion she's spent years earning go to Rafe Gallagher—her infuriating nemesis and, oh yes, the boss's son—she's ready to burn the whole corporate ladder down.

Tris has fought for every inch of her career at WMC Purcell, navigating white male privilege and shameless nepotism with her ambitions intact. So when she's selected to attend the company's elite leadership retreat in Hawaii, it feels like the universe finally owes her one. A shot at an executive training program, warm beaches, and some much-needed distance from Rafe? Perfect. Except Rafe is also on the retreat. Of course he is.

Forced into close proximity on a tropical island, Tris and Rafe can't seem to stop competing—or arguing, or noticing things about each other they really shouldn't. Beneath Rafe's polished, privileged exterior, there might actually be a real person worth knowing. And he seems genuinely, annoyingly interested in the real Tris too, not just the version she presents in the boardroom.

This sharp, steamy workplace romcom crackles with tension between two people who have every reason to stay enemies and zero willpower to keep it that way. Nisha J Tuli delivers a contemporary romance full of wit, heat, and a heroine whose journey toward both love and professional fulfillment feels thoroughly earned.

Because sometimes the person standing in your way is exactly the one you need.