The Boss I Left Behind

When a new CEO takes over the company, Claire Davis, the Finance Director, is stunned to find herself face to face with Asher Vance, the wild boy she once knew on a reckless road trip years ago. Now a formidable billionaire at twenty-eight, he greets her with a flat, unreadable gaze — leaving her to wonder whether he even remembers her, or whether the words he murmured were meant for her at all.

Claire has little time to dwell on it. Her ex-husband Mark Preston, still a Marketing Director at the same company, keeps defending his assistant Chloe Harper against Claire's enforcement of the expense policy, mocking her as a rigid, divorced woman in her thirties. When Asher unexpectedly approves the Marketing Department's report, Chloe gloats and Mark sneers that Claire has suffered for her inflexibility.

Then Asher summons her alone to his office, where a massive mahogany desk stands between them.