The Only Exception

Three years ago, Olivia Park shared an umbrella with a stranger on a rainy Fifth Avenue afternoon. He told her the sketchbook she’d left behind would still be there. It was. Now twenty-four and newly hired at Hale Media, she discovers the man with the umbrella is Marcus Hale, the company’s Chief Content Officer—and the principal on the flagship project she’s just been assigned to. There is a rule. He does not mix professional and personal. She intends to keep it. The rule does not hold.