Fringe Benefits: An Age-Gap Boss/Employee Romance

She’s the ruthless CEO who built an empire. He’s the hyper-competent assistant who anticipates her every move. Crossing the line was never on the schedule.

Nolan

Working as Vivienne Ashcroft’s executive assistant is a survival game. She’s demanding, terrifying, and nineteen years my senior. I survive by being flawless—anticipating international crises, catching million-dollar errors, and memorizing her exact tea temperature. I tell myself it’s just a job and that the $95,000 salary is the only thing keeping me here at 4:45 in the morning. But the truth is, I’m obsessed. And when she finally looks at me like I’m more than just a body outside her door, the professional boundaries don't just blur—they shatter.

Vivienne

I didn't build a two-billion-dollar company by letting people in. Attachments are liabilities, and I've spent fifteen years turning Whitmore Industries into an impenetrable fortress. But Nolan Cross is the exception to every rule I have. He’s twenty-four, relentlessly brilliant, and he looks at me with a devotion that absolutely terrifies me. When a high-stakes corporate merger and a scheming board member threaten everything I’ve built, Nolan proves he's the only one I can trust. But surrendering control to him behind closed doors might be the one risk I can't afford to take.

Fringe Benefits is a steamy, high-stakes, age-gap standalone romance featuring cutthroat boardroom politics, extreme competence, and a love worth risking an empire for.

What to

✓ Boss/Employee

✓ Older Woman / Younger Man

✓ Billionaire CEO

✓ Extreme Competence & Praise

✓ Secret Office Romance