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The Corner Office · Book One

Behind Closed Doors

A lesson in Corporate Success and Seduction

Six years. Many different workplaces. And one shocking corporate secret they never taught her in business school.

SeriesBook One
Release dateAugust 27, 2026
FormatKindle ebook
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The debut

Behind Closed Doors

A lesson in Corporate Success and Seduction

Erika thought an MBA and a prestigious consulting gig were her golden tickets to Corporate America. Shuffled across the country, she embedded herself in every type of organization imaginable, from stuffy Fortune 500 boardrooms and rigid local municipalities to a chaotic, fast paced Silicon Valley tech startup.

Everywhere she went, she found the usual suspects: toxic office politics, fraternity antics, and crowded conference rooms. But beneath the polished suits and corporate jargon, she encountered one undeniable constant on every single assignment.

Sex. It was entirely taboo. You couldn't find it in her consultancy's mega database, and it certainly wasn't a life lesson her father passed down. Yet it was everywhere, quietly dictating promotions, destroying alliances, and altering careers in the shadows.

Now, staring down the biggest assignment of her life, she is forced to confront the ultimate question: what part does intimacy actually play in corporate success? And more importantly, what part has it already played in hers?

An intoxicating, smart workplace drama for readers who love high corporate stakes, complex power dynamics, and the blurred lines between professional ambition and forbidden desire.

Series
The Corner Office
Volume
Book One
Release
August 27, 2026
Publisher
Independently published
Format
Kindle ebook
ISBN
979-8997639303
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Sharp, sexy, and impossible to put down. The office will never look the same.

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A confident debut that reads like a promotion you did not see coming.

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Corporate ambition and forbidden desire, balanced on a knife edge. I devoured it.

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One office. More than one secret.

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About the author

J. Layne

J. Layne is a pen name. The author behind it writes contemporary romance set where ambition and desire collide, in boardrooms, on business trips, and everywhere the polished corporate surface cracks, pairing sharp workplace detail with slow burning heat.

By choice, the person behind the byline stays private, so the work can speak for itself. Behind Closed Doors is the debut and the first book in the series. For now, everything else stays exactly where it belongs, behind closed doors.

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