Elena Herrera has everything to lose.
The forty-one-year-old neuroscientist and single mom has her hands full: an experimental treatment that hasn’t been showing results, a twelve-year-old son with a Mountain Dew addiction, and a corrupt executive that just cut her timeline in half. The last thing she needs is to notice her new research assistant—who works eighteen hours a day but somehow still has six-pack abs and a thriving collection of plants. Especially when he’s fifteen years younger, completely off-limits, and makes her feel more alive than she has in years.
Finn Cochrane didn’t take this job by accident.
At twenty-six, he’s dedicated his entire career to the condition that Elena is researching, for reasons he won’t discuss. He didn’t plan on falling for his boss, or bonding with her son who sees right through him. But when late nights in the lab keep bringing them closer, the tension becomes impossible to ignore. And despite all the reasons they shouldn’t be together, he can’t help wanting her.
When the executive sabotaging their research sets his sights on destroying them personally, Elena and Finn must choose: walk away from each other to save their careers, or risk everything to be together—and take him down in the process.
