NotNastyAnna
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Clara Montgomery lives a life measured by quiet order, high expectations, and the proper distance she must keep. She's a perfect lady-in-waiting for a future she knows she must earn. That future, however, depends entirely on the job her mother holds: Head Maid at the sprawling coastal estate of the influential Vale family.
This summer, Clara is trading her books for dusting cloths, helping her mother keep the mansion pristine. She anticipates a season of routine and silence-until the Vale family sends their biggest liability home.
Enter Seraphina Vale, the reigning queen of chaos. A wealthy brat, a constant headline, and a walking contradiction of dark feminine allure and raw, spoiled entitlement. Seraphina's punishment for her latest scandal is exile: three months under her grandparents' strict roof until she can prove she's ready for the real world.
Clara is everything Seraphina should ignore, and Seraphina is every reason Clara should keep her head down. But forced proximity in the grand, suffocating mansion brings their worlds crashing together.
As the days melt into long, humid nights, and the scent of the nearby ocean fills the air, their initial friction sparks into something undeniable. Seraphina, who is used to controlling everything, finds herself losing control to the woman who serves her family. And Clara, who has spent her life being proper, discovers a reckless abandon in the eyes of the girl she shouldn't touch.
In a summer defined by secrets, stolen moments, and the heavy weight of the hacienda's rules, will their forbidden desire be enough to defy the social divide-or will their fragile, intense summer romance collapse the moment the tide goes out?