As a college guidance counselor and sex education teacher, Chloe Bianca Festerson is an expert at managing other people's intimate dilemmas—and even better at hiding the secret affairs she carries out with her own students. For years, the stunning forty-one-year-old blonde has used her pristine professional reputation as a shield to satisfy a dangerous, unspoken addiction to lust and the intoxicating thrill of forbidden validation. Married to Alfred, a powerful forty-five-year-old business tycoon whose life is governed by strict corporate demands, her domestic life appears seamless, but the walls of her carefully constructed world are beginning to close in. The fragile stability of the Festerson household shifts dramatically when Chloe’s nineteen-year-old son, Mildred, enters his freshman year at Haliburton Collegiate Institute. Mildred is an ambivert and a star varsity football player hiding an intense secret of his own: he is bisexual. Though he guards his identity fiercely from his demanding father and the hyper-masculine culture of the locker room, Chloe glimpses his hidden nature on their first morning commute when she notices him staring longingly at another young man on the street. Rather than confront him, she chooses to let him keep his armor, unaware of how quickly their separate secrets will intertwine. The inevitable collision of the Festerson family’s double lives occurs when the clandestine boundaries Chloe established completely fracture.