A secret scent. A secret name. One man who won't let her hide.
By day, Elisa Whitmore is untouchable—lead developer on a luxury fragrance launch, dutiful daughter, flawless employee.
By night, she becomes "Lisa," wearing the pheromone-based perfume she created—testing it on her own skin, tasting a freedom she was never allowed to want.
Until Cole Sterling.
When he returns her dropped perfume bottle outside a Brooklyn bar, one slow conversation turns into one reckless night. A look that lingers. A kiss she doesn't stop. A choice she can't undo.
Elisa tells herself it was just chemistry—just the scent.
Then Cole shows up again… as the contractor hired to restore her aging Brooklyn brownstone.
In her space. In her quiet. Close enough to read every polished lie.
And as the fiancé her parents have chosen tightens his grip, Elisa's double life begins to crack. The woman she was raised to be collides with the woman she becomes at night—inside the walls of her own home, and in front of the only man who makes her feel terrifyingly, gloriously real.
With winter settling over Brooklyn, Elisa has to choose:
Keep hiding behind a scent and a name—or risk being wanted as herself.
