Voss & Kiernan

On the sixteenth floor of a Loop building, a mid-sized Chicago architecture practice runs on a single unglamorous rule: a project has one lead, one name on the cover of the set, and one throat to choke — because at four o'clock on the Thursday of the eleventh week, somebody has to be able to say yes, do that, it's mine.

Voss & Kiernan is big enough to be shortlisted for the civic work — libraries, branches, plazas, the commissions that get argued over in committee rooms — and small enough that everyone walks the same corridor twenty times a day. Competence is the currency here. Work is judged out loud, in rooms, by people who have actually read your set. Managing partner Nadine Kiernan enforces the rule without cruelty and says good roughly once a year.

Nobody in this firm is hiding who they are. The pressure is professional, and it is worse for it: who gets the credit, who gets the partner-track step, who gets to be liked instead of promoted — and what happens when the person you cannot stop wanting is the one standing between you and the only commission that matters.

Voss & Kiernan is a series of standalone contemporary MM romances, each following a new pair through one project on one deadline: two men who are extremely good at the same job, forced into the same room by a schedule neither of them controls. Explicit, open-door heat, adults who talk to each other, and an HEA every time.

Read them in any order. Start with The Long Span.

MM romance · workplace rivals · forced proximity · open-door explicit · guaranteed HEA.