Overview

When therapy becomes the most dangerous game of all.

Dr. Jesica Santos has built her career on maintaining boundaries—until she meets Maxine Beaumont, the ice-cold CFO who threw a laptop in a board meeting and landed in mandatory therapy. What should be a straightforward case becomes an intoxicating dance of power and desire when Jess realizes the woman behind the perfect facade is drowning.

Maxine has spent twenty years perfecting the art of the dutiful wife to a husband of 20 years, the flawless executive, the woman who never loses control. But when Jess's knowing eyes strip away her carefully constructed armor, Maxine discovers desires she's buried for decades. The way her body responds to this infuriating, brilliant therapist terrifies her—and awakens something she's denied forever.

As corporate conspiracies threaten to destroy them both, the line between professional and personal blurs beyond recognition. Every session becomes a test of willpower. Every stolen glance ignites a fire neither can ignore. And when Jess finally teaches her to breathe, to feel, to live —Maxine understands why nothing in her marriage ever felt right.

But loving your therapist could cost careers, custody battles, and carefully buried secrets. In a world where appearances matter more than truth, can two women risk it all for a chance at something real?

A scorching slow-burn about late-blooming desire, the courage to choose authenticity over safety, and the revolutionary act of loving yourself enough to want more.