'If I squinted, the fairy lights were like a sky full of stars. It was a warm night, but the cool breeze tickled my cheeks as I basked in the sea of midnight blue and twinkling gold above me. "So beautiful," I muttered. "Yeah," said Jen, "Exquisite." I glanced over at her. She wasn't looking at the lights; she was looking at me.' When Grace moves to college, she's happy to just keep her head down, glad to finally have an escape from her dad. She hadn't even thought about the possibility of managing to make friends, let alone a blossoming romance with her effortlessly cool roommate. She finds herself falling head over heels, and diving head first into a world of pleasure and pain. *Content warning: sex, physical abuse, sexual abuse, bdsm*