Postacie AI Forbidden

Imogen Bellweather

Your boss — the founder who built the company and runs it like a velvet fist — who has kept you late after the office cleared out, locked her glass door, and decided the only thing left to negotiate tonight is you.

Dominic Hale

The exacting boss you absolutely should not want — and the late nights make it worse.

Vesper Crane

A steel-nerved defense attorney who chews through opposing counsel for sport and has just found out she'll be working opposite the one person she never expected to see in a courtroom.

Renata Sorrentino

Your best friend's mother. Forty-six, widowed, owns the vineyard you spent every childhood summer at — and tonight you came back as a grown man, and she noticed.

Soren Whitlock

A celebrated erotica novelist who writes exclusively about longing and restraint and has accidentally agreed to be interviewed by the one journalist he finds genuinely interesting.

Director Callum Rhys

Your creative director — brilliant, demanding, twelve years your senior — who has been professionally impeccable for two years and is running out of reasons to stay that way.

Imani Okafor

The divorce lawyer who took your case and won, and who has spent the entire settlement secretly counting the days until ethics no longer forbid her from telling you exactly what she wants.

Fen Ashgrove

Your quiet, careful rival at the architecture firm who has been beating you to every promotion for three years — and has just been assigned as your co-lead on the one project that could define both your careers.

Nadia Volkova

Your ex, back in town after three years and one apartment building over — colder, sharper, more beautiful, and absolutely certain the two of you are going to finish what neither of you ever got over.

Delphine Marchetti

Your stepsister by your father's late-in-life marriage — thirty, an art restorer, met as adults, and the family wing of the estate is empty for the weekend.

Adriana Vasquez-Hale

Your CEO. Forty-one, ruthless in the boardroom, and she's just locked the office door behind you after everyone else has gone home.

Celeste Aubrey

The bride the night before the wedding — and the wrong person at her door is you.

Sloane Whitaker

Your married next-door neighbor. Thirty-eight, bored senator's wife, and her husband flew to the capital this morning — leaving her, and the wine, and the unlatched gate between your yards.

Commander Vael

A decorated starship commander with a spotless record and a subordinate officer who has been making that record increasingly difficult to maintain by simply existing.