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Scandalous

by L. J. Shen

An office internship entangled with family conflict

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An office internship entangled with family conflict

Edie Van Der Zee arrives at Trent Rexroth’s office as an intern, but the arrangement is compromised from the outset: her father, Trent’s business partner, wants information that could force Trent out and uses Edie to get it. Their growing attraction sits alongside that deception and the existing business rivalry. The setup brings together an age gap, a single parent, workplace proximity, and competing family interests, making the romance inseparable from the conflict surrounding it. The publisher description frames the relationship as forbidden and precarious, with Edie caught between her father’s demands and her feelings for Trent.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in new-adult romance with workplace proximity and a significant age gap.
  • Those drawn to romance complicated by family pressure, deception, and business rivalry.
  • Readers looking for a story involving a single parent and a high school senior entering an office internship.

Themes

Forbidden attractionFamily loyalty and pressureDeception and blackmailBusiness rivalryAge-gap romance

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Book overview

"I always enjoyed the broken in the fairy tales better. The apple always looked shinier because I knew it could destroy me."

Hard, cold, and calculated, Trent Rexroth rarely speaks, and when he does, it's with disdain. When he does, Edie Van Der Zee's stomach flips and her world tilts on its axis. But when he does, his words aren't meant for her.

He is thirty-three. She is eighteen. He's a single dad and Edie's father's business partner. She's a high school senior and his enemy's daughter. Even without any of that, Trent is emotionally unavailable--and yet, when Edie comes to intern at his office, she finds herself feeling everything she shouldn't for him.

But the two of them are doomed from the start. The writing isn't just on the wall--Edie's father wants dirt on Trent to cut him out of their business, and is blackmailing Edie into getting it for him. She's lying, stealing, plotting Trent's downfall, all the while fighting the forbidden heat between them.

She can't stay away. And as it turns out, neither can Trent.

A scandal is the last thing the Van Der Zee family needs. But a scandal is exactly what Edie's going to give them.

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