Nova Kingsley
Book cover of Everything I Told Her by Nova Kingsley: a gold ring engraved ASK ME, held between a man's and a woman's hands, tied with a red thread, on black.

A dark office romance · Chicago · Book One

Everything
I Told Her

He made the rules. She makes him ask.

Rule number one: no one can know.

Kindle release · Tuesday, Dec 1, 2026

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Paperback Nov 26, 2026 · Kindle ebook Dec 1, 2026

Paperback: Thursday, Nov 26, 2026

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🌶 Spicy · Adults 18+ · Content warnings

The rules

  • Not at the office.
  • No nights.
  • No feelings.

And one word that ends everything, no questions asked.

Wabash

A gold ring engraved with the words ASK ME, wrapped in red thread, standing on black stone under a thin beam of light.

Sloane keeps the rules. Mostly.

Sloane Becker needs this job to stick. Then she spills coffee on the man in the elevator, and he turns out to be her new boss.

Graham Whitlock is the executive everyone at Kestrel Energy fears. Brilliant. Controlled. And still married to a wife who refuses to let him go. He tells Sloane he can't touch her. He even tells her why. Then he asks what she wants.

The full blurb Meet the characters

What to expect

  • Office romance
  • Boss / employee
  • He's separated, not divorced
  • Secret rules
  • Slow burn, then spicy
  • Multi-POV
  • Chicago after dark
  • The friend who knows everything

The mood

A woman's hand holding a takeaway coffee cup in a dark gold-paneled elevator, beside the sleeve of a man's dark suit with a gold cufflink.
The elevator
A cocktail napkin with handwritten rules – not at the office, no nights, no feelings – tied with a red thread beside a glass of whiskey above a night-time river.
The rules, on a napkin
A dark corner office at night: a desk lamp, a closed notebook and a pen, the city skyline glowing in the window.
The corner office
A hand holding a phone with a late-night text conversation, a red thread bracelet on the wrist.
Texts after midnight
A bridge and a lit water taxi on a black river at night, golden reflections on the water.
The river, black and gold
Rain on a dark window with golden city lights behind it and a fingertip touching the glass.
Rain on the glass

All images are AI-generated and show no real people. AI transparency

“Was it hot?” he asks.

“What?”

“The coffee. Did you burn your hand?”

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