Description
At twenty years old, life has been a carefully curated trio. With her best friend, the notorious serial bachelor Renford Sultreno, and her steady, mysterious stepbrother Vanderbilt Springs constantly by her side, no one else has ever stood a chance of getting close. They are her world—her safe, platonic bubble—but as the years roll on, she is struck by the realization that she is still waiting for her very first kiss.
Deciding it is finally time to shed her innocence, she proposes a scandalous secret arrangement to Renford: he will teach her everything, beginning with her first time. It starts as a clinical experiment in desire, but the sterile walls of their agreement quickly crumble under the weight of stolen touches and long-buried tension.
As boundaries blur and secrets ignite, she finds herself dangerously caught between Renford’s thrill-seeking attention and the intense, unspoken gravity exerted by Vanderbilt—who is harboring desires of his own. Caught in a web of complex loyalties and electric attraction, she must decide if satisfying her curiosity is worth the risk of shattering the only home she has ever known. Can three hearts survive when the lines between friendship and obsession finally snap?
