One forbidden summer. Fifteen years of heartbreak. A second chance that could cost them everything. At twenty-one, Eden Sorensen had one last shot at a professional ballet career. During a grueling summer intensive at Metropolitan Ballet Theater, she fell into a passionate secret affair with the company's brilliant principal dancer, Portia Duvall. But when Eden was denied a contract, she left believing Portia had betrayed her to eliminate a rival. Fifteen years later, interim artistic director Portia Duvall is on the brink of divorce, retired from dance, and drowning under the weight of saving Metropolitan Ballet Theater from scandal. She's counting on a guest choreographer to help restore the company's reputation, until she discovers it's Eden Sorensen, the woman who broke her heart without explanation and who's hiding devastating secrets of her own. Trapped working together with nowhere to run, they uncover the truth about what really tore them apart. But their reconciliation couldn't come at a worse time. The ballet world around them is imploding under decades of corruption and exploitation, and the architect of their original heartbreak is orchestrating his return to power. Eden and Portia must make an impossible fight to save the institutions that destroyed them, or burn it all down and build something entirely new. With careers, reputations, and a second chance at love on the line, can two women who lost each other once find the courage to build a future together? Don't miss this steamy sapphic romance filled with taboo passion and high-stakes scandal set in the world of professional ballet!