About the book

Yun and Sang have been friends since they were thirteen. He is a senior partner. She is an associate on partner track. After years of yes this week he says no, and she can't object.

At half-past midnight on the twenty-seventh floor, hours from a nine o'clock mediation, Yun builds a settlement agreement out of a document she should not have opened. By morning there is a page on the carpet with the wrong client's name stamped on it - and a paralegal who found it first and has wanted one thing that no one has thought to give her.

The firm requires its annual disclosure and it's due Friday. There is a line on the form for personal relationships with a colleague.

Sang has never lied to Yun, not once. He has simply been deciding, quietly and in advance, which of the true things she is allowed to have.

Twenty years of saying nothing finally has a filing deadline.

| Friends to lovers | Workplace romance | Out October 31, 2026 |