The Complacency Syndrome (The Syndrome Series Book 2)

Do you settle for comfortable and good enough?

Or risk having nothing for the possibility of everything?

To say Ellie is a hard worker would be an understatement. She’s had her eye on her goals since she could walk and talk, and she makes them happen. By choosing logic over emotion, what makes sense over what feels good, listening to her head over her heart. 

But when she starts to want more out of her long-term relationship—too much, according to her boyfriend—it threatens the future she’s always counted on. She has to make the hard decision of either settling for what she has or going for what almost no one gets to have.

Ellie

When 90% of my life is perfect, what’s there to complain about that last 10%?

I make my own destiny, so when I decide to spice things up with my partner of the last five years, I think it’s going to go according to plan.

But when it doesn’t, I have to decide how much my self-worth is really worth to me. If my goals outside the office deserve the same importance I place on my career and success for my clients.

If the answer is yes, everything I’ve known and counted on will be upended when my heart takes the wheel…

Asher

I grew up young. I might only be twenty-one, but I’ve seen and done a lot in my time so far. That’s probably why I have less and less patience for my friends and their dumb shit, and more and more interest in the older woman I’m apprenticing under.

I thought I was here just to get some experience to help me launch my own career, but I’m finding myself falling under the spell of the goddess I spend eight hours a day sharing an office with.

If she gives me a chance, I’ll show her I’m good for her in more ways than just being her employee.

So what if she’s ten years older than me? Nobody else feels what’s between us, they shouldn’t have a say whether we get to explore it.

My sights are set on her, I know what I’m after. I just need her to give into this pull, convince her that we’re worth all the risks.

This is the realest thing I’ve ever felt, but she’s scared of giving in, and I can’t even blame her.

She could lose everything, but that’s just what I want to give her.

About The Complacency Syndrome

“The book that started the spam caller trope.” — Absolutely no one

The Complacency Syndrome is a spicy, laugh-out-loud, friends-to-lovers, slow-burn, forbidden romance with a reverse age gap in a workplace setting. Whew! That was a mouthful.

It’s about what happens when you have an okay relationship with two good people who just aren’t good together, how much self-worth is actually worth, and how sometimes you have to do what scares you in order to get where you want to be. Pop an antacid cause this bitch gets spicy and let’s go!

It will have a sequel (it is not a standalone novel, and it ends on a minor cliffhanger), but there will be a happily ever after (obvi, I’m not a monster), and it is book two in The Syndrome Series. The Complacency Syndrome is the flip side of the coin of book one, The Roommate Syndrome, which focuses on salvaging a good marriage between two good people. (You do not have to read book one to appreciate books two and three in the series, but I do recommend it!)