The Naughty Shop

He came to shut the store down. He ended up on his knees.

Christopher Steward has never met a problem a spreadsheet couldn't fix. The former Wall Street shark just bought The Naughty Shop, a struggling chain of adult novelty stores, for pennies on the dollar. The plan is simple: turn a profit by year-end, or liquidate every last location.

Then Zane Harden stands up in the middle of Christopher's big presentation and calls his bluff. The tattooed, leather-clad manager runs the Burlington store, the most profitable shop in the chain, and he has a dare: come work the floor during the holiday rush and learn how it's really done.

Christopher's ego says yes. His tailored suits say otherwise.

Now the boss is taking orders from his own employee, decorating a Christmas tree out of things that should never go on a Christmas tree, and losing a war of wills to a cat named Safeword. Worse, he's found out about Zane's scandalous after-hours side gig. Christopher has spent his whole life in control, and now he can't stop wondering what it would feel like to let go.

When a Vermont blizzard traps them inside the store overnight, Christopher is about to learn that some assets are worth more than the bottom line.

The Naughty Shop is a steamy, laugh-out-loud holiday rom-com with a grumpy boss, a sunshine dom, an age gap, a snowed-in night, and a guaranteed HEA. Each Naughty book is a standalone novel.