In life, as in film, fight for the role you want. Larisa de France-Kahn is the daughter of a model and a famous film producer born to host formal dinners an adorn the arm of a powerful man, but she’s determined to thwart her fate by graduating from her psychiatry residency and practice emergency medicine as an anonymous citizen if only her mother will stop sending her on blind dates with billionaires who would like to make Larisa their trophy wife. The separation between Larisa's celebrity and professional lives is threatened when a producer friend of her father sends one of his directors to Larisa for counseling. Quinn VanderVeer might be the greatest filmmaker of his generation, but he’s so insecure he’s turned everyone against him. He comes to Larisa in the middle of a nasty breakup, questions about his sexuality, and mounting pressure on the set of his first big budget production. She could help him if only he would see her as an ally instead of the woman who could reveal him as the imposter he feels he is. As Larisa works to tear down Quinn’s walls, she also must work against walls of her own, holding them up against her belief that her education has made her unlovable, and her psychiatry skills make her intimidating to men who want to be in control. Together they might become an industry power couple, but first they’ll have to trust each other with their deepest fears and secret desires.

She's waiting for him to say 'I love you.' But he won't until he knows he loves all of her. In this sequel to Elaborate Lives, Larisa and Quinn are dating for real this time, but its complicated. She's been in love with him and hiding it for a long time. He's still a little in shock from the realization that she's the Queen, who he loves, but in real life she acts so much like someone else that he finds himself uncertain. They both want to make it work, if not in the hope of true love, at least for their social lives, which have only gotten more complicated as Quinn's first big movie releases and Larisa continues to deal with the PR fallout of the revelation that she's a famous person who was almost a doctor who likes bondage.