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


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.
Always knew consulting life is not for the faint of heart - there are so many stories out there. Get ready for this one.
managing partner, big 5I know the author. The people and places are fiction -- The stories are not. Well done!
S. marie, avid readerLearning America's corporate codes while navigating the far messier rules of love, lust, ambition and becoming. Sharp, sexy, and unmistakably human
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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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