Eleanor has the perfect life in the public eye: a flawless political career, a respectable marriage, and a reputation built with precision.
But there is something she has been trying to control without success for decades: the desire she feels for the one woman she should never have touched.
Abigail is a brilliant attorney who has built her life far from the past, shielded by her work and an empty marriage.
She has always known what her one weakness is… and she has also known that, when it comes to Eleanor, running away has never been enough. For more than twenty years they share the same secret.
They seek each other out at family gatherings, disappear into corners where no one can see them, and return to their lives as if nothing had happened. They never speak of it. They never kiss.
But when a scandal threatens to destroy Eleanor’s life, the secret that has kept them bound together could become the only thing capable of destroying them. Because some desires are dangerous.
And others… should never have begun.
