He made her extraordinary. He almost made her extinct. Wren Calloway is twenty-four, broke, and teaching children's ballet in a studio with clouded mirrors. She is talented. She is hungry. She is invisible. Then Alexei Voronov—brilliant, magnetic, uncompromising—chooses her. His company. His choreography. His obsessive, all-consuming attention. Wren becomes the lead in a production that demands her technique, her time, her body, her boundaries. The private rehearsals grow longer. The corrections grow more intimate. The distance between director and lover disappears—and with it, every relationship, every meal, every thought that doesn't belong to him. But Wren is not the first dancer Alexei has shaped. And the ones who came before didn't leave unbroken. As her body fractures under the weight of perfection, Wren faces an impossible Is the most extraordinary version of herself worth the woman she's destroying to become? Content This novel contains depictions of psychological manipulation, disordered eating, emotional abuse within a power-imbalanced relationship, prescription painkiller misuse, and physical injury. Intended for mature readers.