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Shadows and Starlight: A Slow-Burn Workplace Romance of Love, Ambition, and Becoming
Paperback
Series: The Man Who Rose Twice, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 9 2026
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
He learned how to survive by staying invisible.
She taught him what it meant to be seen.
Marcus Ashford has spent most of his life in the background-quiet, diligent, and overlooked. Working in the warehouse of a prestigious London health and beauty retailer, he prefers order to attention, systems to people. The warehouse is safe. The shop floor is not.
When a company-wide policy forces Marcus into customer-facing roles, his carefully controlled world begins to unravel. Panic, self-doubt, and old fears threaten to undo him-until Eleanor Elle Hartley steps in.
Elle is everything Marcus is not: confident, compassionate, and luminous in ways that draw people effortlessly toward her. A senior beautician with her own scars and hard-earned strength, she sees potential in Marcus long before he sees it himself. What begins as patient mentorship slowly becomes something deeper-something neither of them planned, and both of them fear.
As Marcus rises through the ranks, success arrives faster than wisdom. Workplace politics sharpen, ambition whispers dangerous promises, and love begins to blur professional boundaries. When desire collides with secrecy and pride, the cost of becoming visible may be more than Marcus is ready to pay.
Set against the streets of central London-from stockrooms and shop floors to late-night walks and quiet flats-Shadows and Starlight is a slow-burn workplace romance about confidence earned the hard way, love found in unlikely places, and the fragile moment when everything begins to change.
This is the first book in a long-form romance saga about rise, fall, and the courage it takes to rise again.
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