ladybugbloom
Alicia Haywood has spent years fighting for a seat at Stanton Wineries' table. The Head of Marketing position was supposed to be her victory-her proof that hard work could outshine privilege.
But the moment Maxwell Evers walks in, her future is rewritten.
Polished. Brilliant. Untouchable.
He takes the job she poured her soul into... and she's ordered to serve as his assistant.
Forced into the shadow of the man who stole her dream, Alicia vows to survive the humiliation with her pride intact. But Maxwell is nothing like she expected. Behind his icy composure lies a man shaped by secrets, pressure, and a loneliness that mirrors her own. And every time their tempers collide, something electric-something dangerous-flares to life.
As power shifts within the company and tensions rise, Alicia and Maxwell are drawn into an emotional storm neither of them wanted. Bound by ambition. Torn by loyalty. Pulled together by a chemistry that threatens to ignite everything they've built.
He wasn't supposed to need her.
She wasn't supposed to care.
And falling for each other might cost them both the very futures they've fought for.