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Coffee Room Crush
Paperback
Publisher: Sankulahub
Published: Nov 24 2025
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In a city that runs on deadlines and burnt coffee, one burned-out ops lead discovers that love at work does not have to cost her career, or herself.
Keira Shah has built her entire professional life on staying calm when everyone else is falling apart. After walking away from a toxic consulting job that nearly broke her, she has finally found something close to balance at Brightline, a firm that promises sustainable delivery instead of quiet burnout. She drinks bad office coffee, runs clean projects, and keeps her heart locked firmly out of the building.
Then a late-night war room throws her into the orbit of Jonah Reed, the operations lead who sees straight through her armour. Between crisis calls and rooftop debriefs, their connection shifts from wary respect to something deeper, something that feels dangerously like home. For the first time, the office coffee room is not just an escape; it is where she breathes.
When a major client crisis hits, Keira's old patterns roar back to life. She shoulders blame that is not hers, pushes herself past the edge and nearly breaks again. Jonah refuses to watch her burn for a win, stepping into the line of fire beside her instead. Together they navigate the fallout, only to be blindsided when Lucas Grant - the charming senior manager who once sacrificed her to save his own reputation - walks into Brightline as a client and tries to pull her back into his world.
As Lucas dangles a lucrative role at his new firm, Keira must decide whether her ambition will be defined by the man who hurt her or by the people who stood by her when everything shook. At the same time, Brightline opens a new Director of Delivery Transformation role that would put her at the heart of changing how the entire firm works. Taking it means stepping away from the day-to-day project where she and Jonah built their bond, and risking a version of love that has only just found its feet.
Coffee Room Crush is a slow-burn office romance about healing from burnout, setting boundaries in places that profit from your overwork, and learning that love and leadership can coexist without one consuming the other. Keira must choose not between career and relationship, but between old scripts of self-sacrifice and a new, braver way of living - with a partner who wants her whole, not heroic.
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