Overview

Jo Alvarez has built her life on precision.

A high-powered corporate lawyer with a five-year plan and a diamond ring to match, Jo believes control is everything. Until one impulsive decision shatters the careful balance she’s spent years perfecting.

A night photography course was supposed to be harmless. A creative outlet. A box to tick.

Instead, it introduces her to Riley Morgan—an unapologetically intuitive photographer who sees the world, and Jo herself, through a lens that refuses to follow the rules.

As Jo is drawn deeper into Riley’s orbit, her orderly life begins to fracture. Art replaces certainty. Desire challenges duty. And the engagement she once considered inevitable starts to feel like a cage.

Torn between the life she planned and the one she’s only just begun to imagine, Jo must decide whether safety is worth the cost of passion—and whether she’s brave enough to choose herself.

A slow-burn sapphic romance about art, identity, and the terrifying freedom of wanting more, this novel is for readers who love emotional tension, late-blooming self-discovery, and love that changes everything.