A young woman desperate for a job takes a position as executive assistant to the city's most powerful and most feared CEO, only to catch him with blood on his lips on her very first night. As she's pulled deeper into his world, she uncovers a secret he's hidden for centuries: he's a vampire, still grieving a wife who died in what everyone believes was an accident. But nothing about that accident adds up, and the closer Mia gets to Adrian, the more she realizes her own mother's past is tangled up in his wife's death. A slow-burn, forbidden office romance wrapped around a murder mystery full of banter, danger, and a love neither of them expected to survive.

Ellie Parker has spent years feeling invisible — until secret love notes start showing up in her locker, one at a time, signed only "Your Secret Admirer." When popular basketball star Jake Reynolds starts smiling at her in the halls, Ellie is sure she's found her mystery writer. She falls for him, note by note, never knowing the truth.But Jake never wrote a single word.The real author is Tommy Grant — Jake's quiet best friend, who has loved Ellie in silence for two years and was too afraid to sign his own name. Jake has known the truth for days and said nothing, unsure how to break his best friend's secret without breaking two hearts at once.Then Chloe Simmons finds out.She's loved Jake for three years and has just discovered the perfect way to end his romance with Ellie — by exposing the truth at exactly the wrong moment. As the fall dance unfolds under paper lanterns and too-sweet punch, a ticking clock starts on a secret that was never supposed to survive this long, and Ellie is about to learn that everything she believed about her secret admirer — and who really sees her — was wrong.A funny, heartfelt story about first love, mistaken identity, and the courage it takes to sign your own name.