Eden Vale is a fourth-year university senior who only meant to help her best friend through a rough time—until she meets Seren Marlowe, her friend’s widowed mother, and falls at first glance.
What starts as late-night favors and shared dinners turns into a love they can’t name without breaking someone they both cherish.
As rumors spread, careers are threatened, and family pressure tightens like a leash, Eden and Seren must choose between a quiet life of denial and a truth that costs everything.
And when Lyra—Eden’s best friend—stands in the middle of their confession, love stops being a secret and becomes a test of responsibility.
In the end, they don’t ask the world for permission—only the courage to love in the light.