Billie Carver: 1

Billie Carver just graduated with honors from Tulane. She has a bright career waiting, a best friend who would do anything for her, and the steady confidence of a woman who believes she has everything figured out.Then a single summer night upends her world.A forbidden attraction, a long-buried memory, and the humid New Orleans air pushing against her skin-suddenly, nothing makes sense the way it used to. Billie spent years constructing a version of herself that felt safe. Now, piece by piece, that version is coming apart, and what's left underneath is raw, uncertain, and achingly real.She finds herself drawn into a romantic entanglement she never expected, one that forces her to question not just who she loves, but who she is. The path ahead demands a cold honesty about the past and a strength she's only beginning to discover. But on the other side of that reckoning is the woman she was always meant to be.