She had three rules for her summer internship: Work hard. Stay focused. Don't do anything stupid. She broke all three by the end of week one. Zara Collins arrived in New York City with a borrowed blazer, an iron will, and exactly one plan — survive her summer internship at Nexus Media and walk away with a career. No drama. No distractions. Then she met Ethan Cole. Brilliant. Guarded. Her direct supervisor. The kind of man who walks into a room and makes everyone in it recalibrate — including Zara, who knows better. She knows the rules. She's read the employee handbook. She's aware, on every rational level, that Ethan Cole is the one person in this city she absolutely cannot want. Awareness, it turns out, is not the same as immunity. Ethan has his own reasons for keeping his distance. He built his career on discipline and silence, and he swore after the last time that he would never blur that line again. Zara is impulsive, disarmingly honest, and completely incapable of leaving well enough alone. She is also, inconveniently, the only person who makes him feel something he'd spent years convincing himself he didn't need. Late nights in the office. Charged silences across conference tables. One rainy evening that neither of them planned and neither of them forgot. The line between professional and personal has never felt so thin — or so dangerous. Because at Nexus Media, the rules are clear: colleagues don't cross that line. And if they do, someone always pays the price. Some things are off limits for a reason. The problem is, reasons stop mattering when feelings don't. OFF LIMITS is a slow-burn contemporary romance for readers who love forbidden tension, enemies-to-something-more energy, and a love story that earns every single moment.