Dahlia Thorne has never needed anyone to validate who she is. She is caramel skin and orange hair and a creative mind that never stops moving a fashion designer with her own boutique, a reputation that turns heads in every room she enters, and a passion for themed designs that has taken her work to an entirely new level.
What she doesn't advertise is the other side of herself. The exotic pieces she makes for no one but her own reflection. The desires she has always known were there, vivid, and unapologetic, that her on-again, off-again boyfriend of five years could never understand and ultimately couldn't face. When he walked out after catching a glimpse of the real Dahlia, she made herself a promise: she would stop making herself smaller for people who couldn't hold her whole.