At fifty-five, Odette March is finally free. The last thing she needs is a thirty-two-year-old woman who makes her question everything she thought she knew about desire.
After twenty-six years of marriage and a humiliating divorce, Odette has rebuilt her life behind the elegant doors of her Boston townhouse. She's a successful book-cover artist, a respectable member of Beacon Hill society, and a woman with six weeks in Provence waiting for her in June.
Then she meets Casey Vale.
Thirty-two, sharp-tongued, fiercely independent, and devastatingly attractive, Casey runs her own luxury travel business. She's spent enough years making herself convenient for other people. She's not doing it again.
But one freezing February night, one borrowed cashmere scarf, and one extraordinary kiss change everything.
Their solution is simple: six rules, no promises, and an expiration date.
June first. No exceptions.
Except the nights become addictive. The boundaries start disappearing. And neither woman can remember what life felt like before the other walked into it.
When Odette's sophisticated social circle begins treating Casey like a temporary indulgence, the difference between loving someone in private and claiming them in public becomes impossible to ignore.
Casey refuses to beg for a place in anyone's life.
Odette has never been so terrified of losing someone.
And suddenly, June is coming far too quickly.
A scorching, emotionally intense sapphic age-gap romance about rediscovering desire, risking your heart, and finding the courage to love out loud.