Darlings, I couldn’t make you wait—this New Year’s Eve romance is dropping early, just for you. New Year's Eve. A velvet curtain. Two strangers who make a rule that will consume them.

Maya steps into an art installation looking for something different, and then Theo holds the curtain open with a smile that makes her stomach flip. Suddenly she's trapped in four feet of space with a man who sees right through her walls. They make a rule: they can touch, they can tease, they can whisper every filthy thought into the heated darkness between them—but they cannot kiss. What starts as a game becomes an obsession that follows them for four torturous days of explicit texts, desperate touches, and a hunger that grows more unbearable with every moment they deny themselves. When restraint finally shatters, will their first kiss live up to the promise? Sometimes the waiting is half the pleasure.