Arcadia

She was supposed to be passing through.

Instead, she became the center of everything.

When eighteen-year-old Tate is left behind in the French countryside with her mother’s new husband and his son, she expects distance, discomfort… maybe even indifference.

What she doesn’t expect is the way the silence starts to change.

Jerome is steady, controlled—the kind of man who doesn’t lose control. Until he does.

Leon is volatile, sharp-edged—the kind of man who pushes people away. Until he doesn’t.

Trapped in a place where no one is watching and nothing feels quite real, Tate finds herself caught between them—pulled into something neither of them is willing to name.

Every moment lingers too long. Every boundary weakens.

And the truth becomes harder to ignore: Some choices change everything.

And not all of them can be undone.