What does it mean to become someone new when the person you love is guiding the transformation?
The boundary between loving someone and deciding who they should be is thinner than either of them imagined.
Maya is keeping a secret. One that lives in the supplement cabinet and shows up in her husband’s body.
“The distance between who you are and who someone else needs you to be — that’s exactly where love lives, and exactly where it can do the most damage.”
Three and a half years. 218 acres. One secret that changes everything.
Alex Chen sells his AI patent and marries Maya Torres. They disappear onto a 218-acre estate in the Pacific Northwest — no neighbors, no expectations, no one watching. Maya has a plan for the space they’ve bought. Not the house, not the land. The space between who Alex is and who he could become.
What begins with a Halloween experiment unfolds over three and a half years into something neither of them has a name for. The boundaries blur — between his clothes and hers, between guidance and control, between the life they show the world and the one they live behind a locked gate.
Maya is keeping something from Alex. It lives in the supplement cabinet and shows up in his body. When it surfaces, the thing they’ve built together will either become the foundation for something real — or the evidence of a betrayal that can’t be undone.
Three and a half years. 23 chapters. Alternating perspectives between Maya and Alex, with three dual-POV chapters, and a story about whether what was built on love and control can survive the truth.
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Alternating POV between Maya and Alex, with three dual-POV chapters. Approximately 102,000 words.
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