Ambition has a price. She didn't know the cost.A gripping psychological office thriller about trust, ambition, and the danger of seeing too much.Emily Lawson has always played by the rules. Work hard, keep your head down, stay useful. It's the safest way to survive in a company where talent is replaceable and visibility is a risk. So when she's unexpectedly invited to join the elite data analytics team led by Luke Rutherford-the boss everyone swears is the nicest man in the building-she believes her luck is finally changing.Luke is everything a leader should be: warm, encouraging, and fiercely protective of his hand-picked team. The SIU is known for excellence, discretion, and impossible standards. It's the kind of opportunity employees wait years for. For Emily, it feels like a door opening.Then a colleague vanishes without warning.The official explanation is thin. Unspoken tension settles over the office. Conversations fall silent as Emily approaches. A strange alert appears on her computer. And the uneasy sense that someone is tracking her every move begins to build-slowly at first, then with suffocating intensity.Determined not to lose the most important opportunity of her career, Emily starts asking questions. But the deeper she digs, the more she discovers fractures in the stories people tell her... and in the relationships she thought were solid. Luke's kindness has sharp edges. Her teammates have secrets of their own. And the cost of belonging to this team is much higher than she ever imagined.As another disappearance rattles the office, Emily is forced to confront the truth: ambition isn't worth anything if it means standing alone. And the people she thought she had to impress may be the very ones she should fear.With loyalties shifting and pressure mounting, Emily must decide who deserves her trust-and what she's willing to risk to protect the people who actually matter.A gripping psychological office thriller about power, pressure, and the danger of mistaking charm for safety. The Nice Boss is perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Daniel Hurst, Lisa Jewell, and Jeneva Rose-readers who love tense workplace mysteries, shifting loyalties, and twist-heavy page-turners that keep you guessing until the final chapter.