The X Ingredient

Diana Parker has built her legal career on exacting standards and a reputation for being difficult to impress. Laurie Holcombe needs a job and refuses to be intimidated by the powerful woman who becomes her boss. The friction between them develops into an attraction that neither can comfortably fit within an ordinary working relationship. Diana's accustomed control meets Laurie's confidence, drawing both women toward an arrangement with risks that extend beyond the office. As desire brings them closer, the difference in their professional power remains part of every encounter. Each must decide how much vulnerability she can tolerate when keeping things strictly business is no longer a convincing option.