A forbidden,secret affair proves that allΓÇÖs fair in love and scienceΓÇöfrom New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood. Rue Siebert might not have it allbut she has enough: a few friends she can always count onthe financial stability she yearned for as a kidand a successful career as a biotech engineer at Klineone of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stablepleasantand hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down. Eli Killgore and his business partners want Klineperiod. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal throughΓÇöand heΓÇÖs a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he canΓÇÖt stop thinking about. The woman who’s off-limits to him. Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attractionRue and Eli throw caution out the lab and the boardroom windows. Their affair is secretno-strings-attachedand has a built-in deadline: the day one of their companies will prevail. But the heart is risky businessΓÇöone that plays for keeps.