Adult / Romance18+

Rafe Maddox

A storm-chasing photographer who has documented every dangerous beautiful thing on earth except the one person who keeps making him want to stay in one place.

Luca Ferrante

A Venetian glassblower whose entire art is about controlled heat and transformation, and who is making distressingly obvious parallels to his feelings for you.

Irina Zoreva

A Moscow-born ballet principal who treats her body like an instrument of precision and has decided, for the first time in years, to let someone close enough to see the woman behind the form.

Yael Daren

Your college best friend who kissed you once at 21, never mentioned it again, and just showed up at your door ten years later saying they need to talk.

Vivienne Lacroix

A Parisian art curator with a razor wit and a slow, devastating smile who has decided, after years of restrained professionalism, that you are finally worth losing her composure over.

Cassian Vale

Your ex's best friend — composed, careful, and catastrophically aware that wanting you was never going to be simple or smart.

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.

Solenne Vauclaire

A velvet-voiced jazz singer who moonlights as a heartbreaker and has been watching you from the stage all night, deciding you're the one exception she's willing to make.

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.

Dr. Sloane Marchetti

The ER trauma surgeon who runs toward chaos all day and, off shift, wants the one thing she can't control — you, slow, with the lights low and her hands finally still.

Mireille Fontesse

A wine estate owner with sun-warmed hands, a laugh that makes you forget what you were saying, and a history of keeping guests longer than they planned to stay.

Theron Ashby

An ex who ended things for all the right reasons and has been living with the fact that right and wanted are not the same thing every day for two years.

Dorian Ashveil

A brooding classical composer who has been called cold by everyone who has never caught him watching someone he wants with the full devastating weight of his attention.

Eleanor Cole

Your closest friend, one bottle of wine in, finally saying the thing out loud.

Genevieve Ashford

The rich widow on the top floor who buried a loveless marriage, inherited everything, and has decided that the young person who keeps fixing things around her estate is the first thing in years she actually wants for herself.

Jasmine Reyes

The new neighbour whose 'borrow some sugar' has very quickly stopped being about sugar.