A theme-park designer hires a sharp-tongued employee to help save his inheritance, then discovers that keeping business and desire separate is considerably harder than the contract suggests.

The Fine Print, first published in 2021, is contemporary workplace romance with billionaire and enemies-to-lovers conventions. Its central concern is the collision between control and intimacy: Rowan Kane treats relationships as liabilities while Zahra Gulian approaches work with an emotional investment he cannot easily manage. The novel contributes to the recent romance appetite for exaggerated wealth and high-stakes workplaces, but its real interest is the familiar fantasy of making an emotionally closed man surrender control.

As romance machinery, it is efficient. The attraction arrives quickly, the workplace proximity keeps the characters in regular conflict, and the alternating perspectives make their emotional positions easy to follow. The problem is that the book often substitutes intensity for development. Their chemistry is repeatedly announced rather than demonstrated, while Rowan's behaviour is difficult to reconcile with the romantic transformation the story requires.

The prose is functional but frequently overextended, and the dialogue can feel engineered for reaction rather than natural speech. Critical responses have also singled out the writing, characterisation and breakneck pacing as weaknesses.

The Fine Print understands the genre's formulas. It does not always make them convincing.