t thirty-five, Victoria Sterling runs a billion-dollar empire with an iron fist and an empty heart. Her marriage was a merger. Her divorce was a headline. Being touched is something she stopped needing years ago. Then her best friend hands her a voucher to Velvet Haven, an unmarked brownstone on the Upper East Side where the most powerful women in New York go to feel wanted. Noah Reyes is twenty-five, impossibly gentle, and trapped. Every night he gives strangers exactly what they came for. Every morning, his debt to the woman who owns his contract grows. He has never let a client near his heart. Until Victoria. She pays for his time. Then for all of it. But the more of him she owns, the less she can tell what is real. And when her ruthless ex-husband uncovers her secret, the scandal could cost her the company, and cost Noah everything he has left. She can buy his nights. She can't buy his heart.