When you don’t know what you want, anything goes!

Chance has always been good at writing fantasies for other people—but real life? That’s another story. Burned out, touch-starved, and running on sarcasm and coffee fumes, he’s definitely not looking for anything serious. So when a shapeshifter crash-lands into his life (and his bed) with no idea how to be a person, Chance figures, sure. Why not. What could go wrong?

Turns out: a lot. Especially when the shapeshifter—Vere—starts taking notes from every messy part of Chance’s brain and body, crafting fantasies so sharp they leave marks. But between the mind-reading mishaps, accidental emotional gut-punches, and one extremely cursed banana incident, something starts to shift. Vere isn’t just mirroring anymore. They’re choosing. Changing. Becoming someone real.

Chance doesn’t know what he wants. Vere doesn’t know how to want at all. Together, they’re going to figure it out—awkwardly, painfully, and maybe beautifully—one disastrous breakfast, one bad anime binge, and one almost-love confession at a time.

A chaotic, filthy, strangely tender story about consent, identity, monsters, and the weird ways we learn how to love.