Fighting temptation is even trickier when you work together…it becomes impossible to ignore. Which is why the workplace romance trope is one of our favourites!

Forced proximity ✅ Challenging your rival/colleague/boss ✅ and taking things from the boardroom to the bedroom with steamy scenes? ✅✅✅

Here are 5 books with the workplace romance trope you’ll want to work into your schedule.

(This article contains spoilers!)

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How to Resist the Single Dad by JC Harroway

This is The Love Hypothesis meets Greys Anatomy meets All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata. It’s cosy, yet sexy with two gifted medical professionals.

GP trainee Stella left the idyllic village she grew up in, never planning to return…especially not to train at the local practice under Dr. Aaron Bennett. Aaron is stoic, sexy and a single father, exactly the type of man Stella refuses to get involved with again. Only, one stolen kiss is enough to drive all efforts of resistance from her mind!

Setting: Cotswolds

Spice level: 🌶️🌶️

The Boardwalk Bookshop by Susan Mallery

This feel-good rom com is actually three love stories in one…bargain!

Bree, Mikki and Ashley were strangers when they opened The Boardwalk Bookshop on the Californian coast, but quickly became great friends. Part bookstore, part gift shop and part bakery this is the dreamiest setting for book lovers!

Bree (who manages the bookstore) is given stern words by Ashley (who runs the bakery) when her brother and bestselling author Harding visits for a book signing. Bree doesn’t do commitment, she only does casual relationships to avoid getting her heart broken. But Ashley is concerned as her brother is the total opposite and she knows he’ll be drawn to Bree’s strong-willed and resilient character.

But as Bree and Harding work together on the event, their chemistry becomes impossible to ignore…or resist. Can Harding be the one to convince Bree to open up her heart?

Setting: LA

Spice level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Mission Honeymoon by Barb Han

Two agents go undercover as husband and wife to find and arrest a notorious gangster. Perhaps not the first plotline that comes to mind when you think of a blossoming workplace romance…

This story is packed with adventure, adrenaline and (of course) a happily-ever-after.

Rule-breaking agent Quint Casey is so close to nailing the ruthless man responsible for his first partner’s murder. He and his undercover wife, Agent Ree Sheppard, are running a gauntlet of unexpected traps. But their irresistible passion for each other is putting everything at risk…Will they catch the killer and have a future shot at love?

Setting: Texas

Spice level: 🌶️🌶️

Claimed by Her Greek Boss by Kim Lawrence

This book gives the phrase ‘from boardroom to bedroom’ a seriously hot new meaning. If you love commanding alpha heroes, then you will love this sexy read.

Playboy CEO Ezio will do anything to save the deal of a lifetime. Even persuade his prim personal assistant Matilda to take a six-month assignment in Greece…as his convenient bride!

As their chemistry sizzles, both Ezio and Matlida struggle to keep things ‘strictly business’.

Setting: Greece

Spice level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

How to marry a Bad Boy by Shannon McKenna

Step 1: Draw a random name.
Step 2: Propose…

Playboy Marcus Moss is the only sibling who hasn’t fulfilled his grandmother’s (once head of their tech company) decree: marry or lose the family company. So, he draws a name from all the single women working on special projects for MossTech: Eve Seaton.

Eve is a brilliant, beautiful geneticist who can pretend to be his wife while he finds investors for her ground-breaking work. Win-win…right?

Setting: The Pacific Northwest

Spice level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

By Lauren Gardiner