THE TROUBLE TICKET THAT REBOOTED HEARTS

By AJ ZAMBRANO

He can fix anything at Murray & Associates except the one thing wrong with himself.

Lisa Blevins didn't take the marketing coordinator job because it was her dream. She took it because the listing didn't mention golf. Eighteen months later, she's finally pitching the campaign that could make her career - until her computer dies four days before the biggest presentation of her life, and the only person who can save it is the office's infamously unreadable IT guy.

Derek Fellows keeps this company running single-handedly, and no one has ever bothered to notice. Not the partners who take credit for his work. Not the coworkers who mock him to his face. For years, he's kept a quiet, private record of exactly who deserves it - and made sure, in small, invisible ways only he could trace, that they got what was coming to them.

Then Lisa starts asking the right questions.

She's sharp enough to see through his flat stare to the person underneath it. Observant enough to notice the pattern nobody else has caught. And honest enough that when she finally puts it together - that the mild-mannered IT guy has been running a secret campaign of quiet revenge for years - she doesn't run.
She stays. And she asks him why.

What follows is late nights in a basement server room, after-work drinks that turn into something else, and a slow-burn workplace romance neither of them saw coming - set against a countdown neither of them can stop. Murray & Associates is outsourcing IT, and Derek's job, and the secret he's been keeping, both have an expiration date.
Derek has to decide if the man he's been is someone he's willing to stop being. Lisa has to decide if she can love someone for exactly who he is - including the parts he's ashamed of.
And together, they have to find out if "close enough" is enough to build a life on.

THE TROUBLE TICKET THAT REBOOTED HEARTS is a full-length, dual-POV workplace romance with a grumpy-but-brilliant IT hero, a heroine who refuses to be overlooked, and a slow burn that actually pays off. Perfect for readers who love opposites-attract office romance, hidden-depths heroes, competence as foreplay, and a redemption arc that's genuinely earned.

The novel contains banter that turns into tension, a hero with a real dark secret, a heroine who calls him on it, and steam that'll make you glad IT support doesn't actually work this way at your job.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H8MSN29T
• ISBN13: 9798187033256
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"