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How spicy is Misconduct?

by Penelope Douglas

Sources for these ratings

  • smexybooks.com: Reports a standalone with an age-gap alpha billionaire and damaged heroine, and says it includes some open-door sexual scenes. Covers spice level, tropes and reading order.
  • penguinrandomhouse.com: Reports the book is a standalone, separate from the Fall Away series, and describes its sexual content as explicit without detailing individual scenes. Covers spice level and reading order.
  • booklovinmamas.net: Describes the hero as a wealthy public figure preparing for a political run while adjusting to full-time single fatherhood. Covers tropes.
  • namisnook.wordpress.com: Notes the lead character has PTSD tied to a trauma five years earlier, shown through compulsive habits like counting steps and rechecking locks. Covers content warnings.
  • pendouglas.com: Describes Misconduct as a standalone novel, separate from the author's Fall Away series, so no prior books are needed to read it. Covers reading order.
  • thriftbooks.com: States the book is a standalone with no series to read first, and notes the author also wrote the Fall Away books. Covers reading order.
  • wrappedupinreading.com: Notes the book contains explicit sexual content that the reviewer describes as very intense. Covers spice level.

Tropes

Content warnings (1)
  • PTSD (moderate, estimate)

Facts

Point of view:
Not enough data
Ending:
Not enough data
Standalone or series:
Standalone
Series completed:
Not a series
Darkness:
Not enough data
Pairing:
Not enough data

Spice: about 3–4/5 (Moderate to High, estimate)
Kindle Unlimited: Not checked yet

Content warnings: PTSD (estimate)

Based on 7 sources. How we rate

Like this but spicier

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Ratings last checked Oct 19, 2026. The Kindle Unlimited line carries its own source or check date, when there is one.

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