Isabella Hart, a engaged English professor whose restrained life unravels when she forms a charged connection with Ethan Carter, a quiet college freshman. What begins as intellectual tension evolves into a secret, intimate bond. At the center of it all is Vanessa Clarke—Isabella’s closest friend, a bartender with a voyeur’s curiosity and an appetite for taboo. Rather than standing outside the affair, Vanessa becomes essential to it, transforming the relationship into an trio built on desire, observation, and shared secrecy. Together, they explore the thrill of being wanted, watched, and undone.
