Wren Castellano wakes up in a penthouse she doesn’t recognize, next to a man she should never have touched — her boss, Julian Voss. Cold. Controlled. Utterly off-limits.

Julian doesn’t fire her. He doesn’t ignore her either. He does something far more dangerous: he starts letting her in.

But Julian built his empire by making himself untouchable — no relationships, no risk, nothing anyone could ever use against him. Wren was never supposed to be the exception.

The closer they get, the harder that rule becomes to keep.

Waking Up Ruined is a steamy, slow-burn workplace romance about a man who’s spent a decade protecting himself from everyone — and the one woman who finally makes that impossible.