Strictly Business

Strictly Business is Kallista’s debut novel and is the first in the Boss Babes of Buchanan’s Series.

Izabelle has one rule: never mix business and pleasure.

It’s taken Izabelle Green five years to rebuild what her ex-boyfriend stole from her. With the biggest presentation of her life looming, she can’t afford any distractions. Even if that distraction is Jake, a fellow work-a-holic with great shoulders and dreamy eyes she met in the most random way. But with just two weeks until her pitch, she’s a one-woman CEO who needs help, and there’s something about Jake’s delightfully awkward charm that has her wondering if some rules are meant to be broken.

Jake Masterson should be thanking his lucky stars. He thought this forced vacation was going to be two weeks of can’t-access-the-company-network torture. Instead, he’s run into a smart, gorgeous brunette—not once, but twice—and she’s asking him for help in his area of expertise. There’s just one problem, Izabelle is the one woman he shouldn’t be talking to, and he can’t find the words to tell her why.

As their chance encounter at a luxury Sedona resort heats up, both Jake and Izabelle fight the urge to mix personal and professional. But as they bond over life, loss, and having little to no free time, the urge gets harder to resist. With hearts and companies on the line, how are they ever going to keep things strictly business?

Tropes

  • Forced Proximity/ vacation romance

  • Hidden Identity/ Miscommunication

  • Man falls first and cinnamon roll hero

  • Workplace romance/ work themes

  • Strong Circle of Female Friends

  • Grand Romantic Gesture

✺ Sensitive Topics and Trigger Warnings ✺

  • Both main characters have lost both of their parents figures. These events do not happen on screen.

  • The female main character has been manipulated and financially abused by a previous partner who does appear in this book.

  • The male main character does not fully explain who he is to the female main character

  • There are multiple on page sex scenes with explicitly described intercourse and sex acts. The sex does not involve any kink.

  • All of the characters swear in this book.