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Office Hours: An Age Gap Workplace Romance
The No weekends. No home visits. Just 9 to 5.Marcus Jackson builds skyscrapers, but he lives in a house of cards.
At forty-five, Marcus is the Senior Project Manager at Redstone Engineering. He commands respect on the job site and manages multi-million dollar budgets with ease. But at home, he is invisible—a prop in his influencer wife’s perfectly curated Instagram feed, starved for affection and treated like an ATM.
Skyler Thomas is a brilliant strategist disguised as a trophy wife.
At twenty-six, Skyler is used to being underestimated. Her fiancé sees her as a weekend accessory, oblivious to the sharp mind that makes her a rising star in crisis management. When she walks into Marcus’s boardroom and corrects his math on a massive infrastructure project, she expects a reprimand.
Instead, she finds the one thing she’s been a man who truly sees her.
What starts as late nights reviewing blueprints turns into a dangerous addiction. They find solace in each other’s competence, turning budget reviews into foreplay and the archive room into a sanctuary. To survive their hollow lives at home, they establish a dangerous a relationship that exists strictly within the confines of the workday.
But as the heat rises behind the locked office door, Marcus and Skyler realize that the heart doesn't punch a time clock. And some foundations are built to crumble.
TROPES & Age Gap (45/26)
Workplace Romance (Boss/Employee)
Competence Kink (Intellectual Attraction)
Forbidden Love / Exit Affair
Size Difference
SPICE & CONTENT Heat High / Scorching (4/5) 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Office Hours is a steamy, open-door romance featuring graphic intimacy.
Sexual
High-Risk Public Hookups in archive rooms, glass-walled offices, and parked cars.
Power A demanding, protective older man who takes control.
Praise & "Good girl" praise mixed with possessive claiming.
Voyeurism/ Intimacy with the threat of being caught.
Content This book depicts an exit affair. Both protagonists are in unhappy, neglected relationships when they meet. While the story focuses on them finding their soulmates in each other, readers sensitive to cheating themes should proceed with caution.
At forty-five, Marcus is the Senior Project Manager at Redstone Engineering. He commands respect on the job site and manages multi-million dollar budgets with ease. But at home, he is invisible—a prop in his influencer wife’s perfectly curated Instagram feed, starved for affection and treated like an ATM.
Skyler Thomas is a brilliant strategist disguised as a trophy wife.
At twenty-six, Skyler is used to being underestimated. Her fiancé sees her as a weekend accessory, oblivious to the sharp mind that makes her a rising star in crisis management. When she walks into Marcus’s boardroom and corrects his math on a massive infrastructure project, she expects a reprimand.
Instead, she finds the one thing she’s been a man who truly sees her.
What starts as late nights reviewing blueprints turns into a dangerous addiction. They find solace in each other’s competence, turning budget reviews into foreplay and the archive room into a sanctuary. To survive their hollow lives at home, they establish a dangerous a relationship that exists strictly within the confines of the workday.
But as the heat rises behind the locked office door, Marcus and Skyler realize that the heart doesn't punch a time clock. And some foundations are built to crumble.
TROPES & Age Gap (45/26)
Workplace Romance (Boss/Employee)
Competence Kink (Intellectual Attraction)
Forbidden Love / Exit Affair
Size Difference
SPICE & CONTENT Heat High / Scorching (4/5) 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Office Hours is a steamy, open-door romance featuring graphic intimacy.
Sexual
High-Risk Public Hookups in archive rooms, glass-walled offices, and parked cars.
Power A demanding, protective older man who takes control.
Praise & "Good girl" praise mixed with possessive claiming.
Voyeurism/ Intimacy with the threat of being caught.
Content This book depicts an exit affair. Both protagonists are in unhappy, neglected relationships when they meet. While the story focuses on them finding their soulmates in each other, readers sensitive to cheating themes should proceed with caution.
65 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 6, 2025
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December 27, 2025
Office Hours is a quick-paced office affair between two people who are seeking attention, intimacy, and respect. Marcus is a middle-aged black man in a failing marriage who meets the much younger Skyler, a blue-eyed blonde-haired strategist, who starts working on his company's latest skyscraper project. With Skyler's inconsiderate fiancée three hours away, Skyler seduces Marcus one evening, transitioning their work relationship into a friend’s with benefits situationship finding solace in each other's companionship.
There are a total of five characters: Marcus, the Senior Project Manager at Redstone Engineering; Skyler, the beautiful, brilliant strategist; Alaina, Marcus's wife, who is a content creator of some sort; Brad, Skyler's fiancée, who is still a frat boy in his presumably mid-twenties; and Marcus's daughter, Maya. If it wasn't for the cover design, readers wouldn't know this was an interracial love story. Aside from Skyler's "blonde hair, blue eyes" description, Marcus' ethnicity isn't mentioned, nor are the remaining characters.
Office Hours has the potential to be a near perfect novella if it wasn't for the plot hole in the sixth chapter, the lack thereof of scene and character description, and the heat level is swift and bland. Nevertheless, Lacy Summers is an author readers should look forward to in the future. I feel like the more she writes, the better her work will be. I think she has a promising future in romantic literature.
There are a total of five characters: Marcus, the Senior Project Manager at Redstone Engineering; Skyler, the beautiful, brilliant strategist; Alaina, Marcus's wife, who is a content creator of some sort; Brad, Skyler's fiancée, who is still a frat boy in his presumably mid-twenties; and Marcus's daughter, Maya. If it wasn't for the cover design, readers wouldn't know this was an interracial love story. Aside from Skyler's "blonde hair, blue eyes" description, Marcus' ethnicity isn't mentioned, nor are the remaining characters.
Office Hours has the potential to be a near perfect novella if it wasn't for the plot hole in the sixth chapter, the lack thereof of scene and character description, and the heat level is swift and bland. Nevertheless, Lacy Summers is an author readers should look forward to in the future. I feel like the more she writes, the better her work will be. I think she has a promising future in romantic literature.
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