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About the book

The contract offers Emory stability. Vivian becomes the part she cannot put a price on.

Emory Sato is twenty-three, overqualified for her barista job, and struggling to keep herself afloat while worrying about her mother’s health. A six-month companionship arrangement promises the financial breathing room she desperately needs. She intends to be honest, meet the terms, and keep her heart out of the transaction.

Vivian Cross prefers that approach. At forty-four, the tech company’s chief financial officer has built a life around control and arrangements that end neatly on schedule. Girlfriends are not part of the plan. Neither are surprises.

Emory becomes both harder to categorize and harder to keep at a distance. She challenges Vivian’s rules, makes her laugh, and brings a kind of honesty that the contract cannot prescribe. Their time together starts to feel less like an arrangement and more like the life neither expected to want.

Then a blind item threatens to expose them, the board starts asking questions, and Vivian retreats into the structure that has always kept her safe. With the end date approaching, Emory must decide whether walking away from the money is the only way to find out whether Vivian will choose her without a clause requiring it.

Book details

Author: Aurora North
Genre: Sapphic contemporary arrangement romance
Pairing: FF; adult protagonists aged 23 and 44
Tropes: Twenty-one-year age gap, sugar arrangement, contract romance, class difference, forced proximity, controlled older heroine, praise kink, power exchange
Heat: High heat; explicit adult romance
Ending: Happily ever after

Your ebook edition

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Content notes

For readers 18+. Contains explicit sexual content, sugar-arrangement and power-exchange dynamics, semi-public intimacy, strong language, financial hardship, parental illness, and anxiety.