I’m a huge fan of office romance! A workplace romance comes with a problem built in: whatever happens between them, they still have to face each other at work on Monday morning 💼 I love that tension, and even more when one of them is the boss and nothing is supposed to happen at all.
Here are the 20 MM office romance books I recommend, with bosses and their employees, a president and his Secret Service agent, FBI partners and a Victorian ghost hunter with his assistant. Each book has a blue tag that tells you who works with whom.
Which MM Workplace Romance Should You Read First?
Pick your mood and go straight to the book.
You want a CEO and the man on his payroll
You want an office crush with an age gap
You want him protected at all costs
You want two cops or agents
You want a historical setting
The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal · The Only Gold · The Tutor
You want something paranormal
You want hurt/comfort or wide open spaces
You want to laugh
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MM Boss x Employee Romance at the Office
One of them signs the other’s paycheck or approves his internship, and that should be enough to keep things professional. The six couples here work in finance, insurance, architecture, recruitment and private security.
Return on Investment
Martin David is the newest and least experienced analyst on the investment team at Skeiron Capital Partners in London. His boss, Francis De Bracy, is a financial genius, overbearing and intense, and Martin is drawn to him in every sense, while the man barely seems to notice him. Desperate to prove himself in a firm where pedigree counts for more than a new degree, Martin trusts a charming investment manager with data that should have stayed confidential, just as the financial crisis hits and Skeiron’s survival is at stake.
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Takeover
On the last night of his holiday in Curaçao, Michael meets a tense, commanding stranger at the hotel bar and offers to help him unwind. For Sam it is the most intense night of his life, and it has to stay a memory: back in Pittsburgh he is not out, and he has a failing company to save. Then Michael turns up on Sam’s payroll, strictly off-limits.
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Red+Blue
Ben Dutoit, fresh out of backwoods Minnesota and training to be an actuary, lands a job at an insurance company in San Francisco and plans to finally live out loud. He gets on well with his boss, Adrian, the son of the company’s owner, and their friendship slowly turns into feelings. Adrian is deep in the closet and denies everything, and then the economy collapses and Ben’s job is in danger.
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Elements of Retrofit
Thomas Elkin is a respected New York architect. Close to forty, he stopped pretending: a divorce, a coming out, and a better relationship with his son. Four years later his life runs smoothly, with a lot of work and nothing that lasts, until Cooper Jones starts his internship at the firm, twenty-two and not remotely intimidated by him.
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Thomas and Cooper’s story continues in books 2 and 3.
Hart
It was supposed to be one night with a handsome alpha in a business hotel, nothing more. A year later, an interview for a PA position at a security company puts him in front of the man behind the desk: the same alpha, now his new boss, who has no idea what happened after that night.
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Hart reads as a standalone.
Best Man
Zeb Evans runs his own recruitment agency, and after a chaotic childhood he keeps his life in order and work well away from pleasure. Jesse Reed, his much younger employee, is chaos itself. So Zeb is the first to be surprised when he hears himself asking Jesse to come to a country wedding and pass as his boyfriend.
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Best Man reads as a standalone.
More age gaps, at work and elsewhere
My age gap list has Elements of Retrofit and The Tutor too, next to silver foxes and single dads.
Working for Him at Home: Housekeepers and Ranch Hands
Here the job comes with a roof: one is hired to keep a blind man’s house, another to cook on a Montana ranch, and the third to work on a cattle station in the Australian outback.
The Blinding Light
Jake Manning’s smart mouth costs him every job he gets, and he has a huge debt and three younger sisters to look after. So he jumps at a housekeeping position, and his new boss turns out to be Patrick Stanford: fussy, arrogant, rude, and blind since birth. Patrick is used to being accommodated, and Jake threatens to swap all the braille labels on his groceries if he does not behave.
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Touch Me Gently
Kaden James carries memories that have left him afraid of big men, and he has struggled to hold down a job. When he is offered a temporary post as cook on a ranch in Montana, he cannot afford to say no. Logan Michaels, the rancher, has always thought of himself as straight, and he senses Kaden’s fear the moment they meet.
Red Dirt Heart
Charlie Sutton runs Sutton Station, one of the largest working farms in the world, in the middle of the Australian outback, the way his father did before him, keeping his head down and his heart in check. Travis Craig, an American agronomy student, arrives to work on the station and learn how anyone makes a living from such a harsh land. The landscape is brutal and beautiful, and Travis only has eyes for the man running it.
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Charlie and Travis’s story continues across the series.
Bodyguards and the Men They Protect
His job is to stay one step behind a man and keep him alive, and the rules forbid him from falling for that man. The president of the United States in one, a prince in the other.
Enemies of the State
Jack Spiers has just been elected President of the United States, and the world starts falling apart around him from day one. Special Agent Ethan Reichenbach runs his Secret Service detail and expects one more arrogant politician. Jack turns out to be funny and very human, and the rules forbid an agent from getting close to the man he protects. Then a domestic threat puts Jack in its sights.
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Jack and Ethan’s story continues across the series.
A Taste of Gold and Iron
Kadou, the shy prince of Arasht, has just humiliated himself in front of a powerful ambassador. To prove his loyalty to his sister the queen, he takes charge of the investigation into a break-in, with his new bodyguard Evemer at his side, who does not think much of him at first. The conspiracy they uncover could ruin the whole kingdom.
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Partners on the Job: Cops and FBI Agents
They did not choose each other. Their superiors paired them up on a case, and now they have to trust each other in the field.
Cut & Run
Ty Grady and Zane Garrett are two FBI agents who have nothing in common and no wish to change that. Their superiors pair them up to catch the man behind a string of deaths in New York: Ty is reckless and rude, Zane is buttoned-up and hiding a lot.
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Madison Square Murders
Everett Larkin works cold cases for the NYPD, with a perfect memory, no patience and no interest in a partner. When a storm brings down a tree in Madison Square Park, it uncovers human remains and a Victorian death mask. Detective Ira Doyle is assigned to help him, stays relentlessly easy-going about it, and does not leave.
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When the partner is the enemy
Cut & Run is in my enemies to lovers list too, sorted by how much they really hate each other.
Historical Workplace Romance: Assistants, Tutors and Bank Clerks
Before open-plan offices, there were employers who hired you to live under their roof, and banks where two clerks could fight over the same promotion. Four historical settings, and ghosts in three of them.
The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal
Robert Caldwell has been Simon Feximal’s companion, assistant and chronicler for twenty years, and his casebooks have made the ghost-hunter famous. In 1914 he finally writes down what he never published: how they met, and the cases they really worked, a story far too private and too intimate for Victorian readers.
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The Only Gold
Jonah Woolner’s life is as carefully regulated as the bank where he works, until the promotion he was counting on goes to a newcomer, Reid Hylliard. Reid is brash and full of new ideas, and everyone at the bank loves him except Jonah. But the more Jonah learns about him, the harder he is to resist. Then, during the worst blizzard New York has ever seen, a vengeful man comes to rob the bank, and the two of them are trapped inside.
Restless Spirits
Henry Strauss lost his family’s fortune to a fraudulent psychic, and has built a machine to bring the spirit world under scientific control. A wealthy industrialist invites him to prove it at Reyhome Castle, the scene of a terrible crime decades earlier, in a contest against a spirit medium. His rival, Vincent Night, is charming and determined to get him into bed, and something in the castle wants them both.
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The Tutor
Graham Cowrie, a typesetter, answers an advertisement for a tutor at a Yorkshire estate, sure that teaching two nine-year-old twins cannot be that hard. The staff are unsettling, the twins are strange, and the widowed master of the house is away. Sir Richard turns out to be brooding and far too attractive, and the Hall is haunted by two presences that want very different things.
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Office Romance Between Coworkers and Rivals
Nobody is anybody’s boss here: two colleagues sent on the same business trip, a librarian and the bookbinder hired to replace a dead man, and a hockey player with the team’s social media manager.
Not Here for the Romance
For seventy-three days he has avoided Kyle Donovan, ever since he overheard Kyle making a humiliating comment about him. Then their boss sends them both on a last-minute business trip to charm an eccentric art donor, and they end up in a cabin in the woods with only one bedroom.
Rath and Rune: Unhallowed
A librarian is convinced his colleague’s death was no accident, and the bookbinder hired to replace the dead man gets an anonymous letter telling him to leave town. After one of them saves the other from an attack, they investigate together, which suits neither of them. Vesper is keeping a lot to himself, and the library holds a few secrets of its own.
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Role Model
After a public scandal, Troy Barrett is traded to a struggling hockey team, determined to become a better man. In Ottawa he meets Harris Drover, the team’s social media manager, sunny and openly queer, the opposite of Troy in every way. Their friendship forces Troy to take an honest look at himself and at the wall he keeps between himself and everyone else.
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My Top Three MM Office Romance Books
Choosing was really hard: every book on this list is great, and office romance is one of my favourite tropes. But here are my three.
Return on Investment · Aleksandr Voinov
My favourite of the whole list, the one I keep rereading: a Wolf of Wall Street atmosphere, and a lot of tension in the office.
The Tutor · Bonnie Dee
A haunted house, a fake identity and a tutor falling for the master of the house, in a slow burn just the way I like it.
The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal · KJ Charles
Ghost stories and a cold hero are my weakness, and KJ Charles never disappoints me.
MM Workplace Romance: Your Questions
What counts as a workplace romance?
Any romance where the two men work together, or where one works for the other. Office romance usually means coworkers or rivals in the same company, and boss x employee adds the forbidden side, since one of them holds the other’s job in his hands. I also count partners paired up on a case and a bodyguard with the man he protects, because the job is what keeps them together.
Where should I start with MM boss x employee romance?
Return on Investment, my number one, for a London finance boss and his junior analyst. Best Man if you want something lighter, with a fake relationship on top, and Takeover if you want a CEO who cannot forget one night in Curaçao.
Are there historical MM workplace romances?
Yes, a whole section of them: a ghost hunter and his assistant in The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal, two bank clerks in The Only Gold, rivals hired for the same contest in Restless Spirits, and a tutor at a haunted Yorkshire estate in The Tutor.
Are there paranormal office romances?
Hart is an omegaverse boss x PA romance, and Rath and Rune: Unhallowed has two library colleagues facing Lovecraftian horrors. Three of the four historical books on this list also have ghosts in them.
Before You Go
From a trading floor in London to the White House and a haunted castle, none of these men manages to keep work and feelings apart.
So, who are you clocking in with tonight?
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