Olivia Parker is twenty-four, broke, and out of options. Her mother is in the hospital. The loan sharks are counting down. And a notification on her phone is offering five thousand dollars for one night with a man named Theo Wilson. She tells herself it is just business. Theo Wilson tells himself the same thing. He is cold, controlled, and dangerous in ways she is only beginning to understand. He communicates in contracts and four-word messages and a silence that takes up more room than most people's words. He is also, slowly and without knowing how to stop it, paying attention to her in a way that has nothing to do with the arrangement they signed. She came into his world looking for relief. What she found was the most complicated man alive. And the question neither of them can answer: Is this a cage — or is she choosing it?