The Art of Falling Wrong

At only eighteen, Odette Laurent has spent her entire life being raised like a porcelain doll.
Born into one of the most prestigious families in the city, every breath she takes is monitored, every mistake treated like a stain on the Laurent name. Cold parents, endless expectations, suffocating etiquette, none of it ever truly broke her, because she always had one person who loved her like she mattered: her older brother, Lorrenzo Laurent.

Until he marries the one woman who hates her most.
For the first time in her life, Odette realizes that loyalty inside wealthy families is conditional. Disposable. And with her brother slipping away into a life that no longer has room for her, Odette decides she's done being the obedient daughter trapped behind glass walls. She wants freedo, even if she has to destroy herself to earn it.

Then there's Archer Evans - brilliant, untouchable.
The world sees Archer as the perfect heir: charming, disciplined, academically gifted, admired by everyone. The golden son of an influential family. But beneath the polished exterior lives a boy rotting from the inside out - emotionally detached, reckless, addicted to excess and self-destruction. Archer collects sins the same way other people collect trophies, hiding every ugly part of himself behind expensive smiles and effortless charisma.
And no one knows.

But fate becomes cruel when the person tying them together is Asher Evans - Archer's cousin and the boy Odette has secretly loved for years.
Asher is everything Archer is not. Kind. Gentle. Safe. The type of boy people write love songs about. The type of boy who unknowingly keeps Odette's heart bleeding open while dating her best friend.
And when both Odette and Archer become desperate for money - one to escape a suffocating family, the other one to build a future outside his father's control, Asher pulls them into an arrangement neither of them fully understands.