Conditioned from childhood to remain untouched and submissive, Alice harbored a dangerous longing for Ethan, the boy she called family. His homecoming after a long absence coincides with a forced arrangement orchestrated by her parents, igniting an irresistible blaze between them. When the truth of her hidden origins surfaces, revealing no blood connects them, she must risk everything to tear down a house of deceit for a chance at forbidden devotion.