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GRACE ASHCROFT has spent almost her entire life believing that, if she wants things to turn out exactly the way she wants them to... there's no better way than doing them herself, no matter what the cost is.
At twenty-six, she has more responsibilities than she can realistically handle. On top of being the head of the analysts' unit at the FBI offices in Manhattan and working an awful amount of hours that leave her with very few nights to actually sleep peacefully (not to mention having some rather... peculiar coworkers), she's also responsible for EMILY, a nine-year-old orphan she adopted after solving a pretty dark case alongside LEON KENNEDY, the police captain at the Greenport Police Department and someone who'd been a very close friend of her late mother.
Grace knows that balancing work and motherhood isn't exactly easy..., but things are getting out of hand for her and, as Leon keeps telling her, she needs help as soon as possible, despite being completely unwilling to accept it.
YOU'RE tired of searching for job opportunities that never seem to come your way in a country where you can't see a future for yourself. After ending an almost two-year relationship, you realize you have no idea what to do with your life. That's why, with nothing to lose and lots to gain, you decide to sign up for an au pair program.
What you least expected was to be hired by a woman a few years younger than you, and that you'd also have to be in charge of the little girl's homeschooling program.
However, what YOU don't even expect is to feel deeply understood by a stranger on a sexting app you join to, luckily, have those occasional, casual, no-strings-attached encounters... And, of course, it doesn't even cross your mind that said stranger could be your boss, GRACE ASHCROFT, who, after years of questioning not only relationships but her own sexuality, has finally decided to give love a chance... even if AfterDark might not be exactly the most appropriate place to find it