Kanya Kraison likes numbers because numbers behave.
So when her coworkers give her an expensive seven-night voucher to Ninth Rule—a discreet, women-only private club—for her twenty-seventh birthday, she has exactly one plan: return it, get their money back, and go home.
Then she notices an accounting error on the refund receipt.
Risa Thananon, the woman running Ninth Rule, notices Kanya noticing it.
By the end of the night, the club still has an unactivated voucher, Kanya has somehow agreed to a short-term reconciliation contract, and Risa has become far more interesting than any professional boundary should allow.
Seven evening work sessions. Clear hours. Separate payments. No blurred lines.
At least, that is the plan.
But once the work clock stops, Kanya keeps finding reasons not to leave. A corrected inventory turns into a kiss. A carefully written agreement becomes something much more personal. And somewhere between missing receipts, karaoke complaints, melted iced coffee, and a tortoiseshell cat with absolutely no respect for internal controls, Kanya and Risa begin building a relationship neither of them knows how to classify.
Because balancing the books is easy.
Figuring out what happens after closing is not.
A contemporary sapphic romantic comedy set in Bangkok featuring two capable adult women, workplace boundaries, mutual consent, dry humor, explicit intimacy, and a happily committed romance.