A dystopian why choose romance featuring MMFM, open-door spice, possessive heroes and a hard-won HEA. In Britain, autonomy is no longer a luxury women are granted. Isabelle Blackthorne has spent her entire adult life watching her father cement the system designed to consume her. Educated, compliant on paper, and days away from a marriage that will strip away the last of her freedom, she puts her trust in strangers operating from the shadows—even if it costs her everything. When a blizzard leaves her isolated in a cottage in the perfectly wrong part of Kent, she realises she isn’t alone. Sheltering with three men who owe her nothing, she discovers, for the first time in her life, something that feels dangerously like being chosen. But the outside world hasn’t forgotten her. And the warmth of the cottage won’t hold forever. The system has a plan for her. How far will she go to outrun it? Content note: reproductive coercion, forced sedation, coercive control, threats of institutionalisation, and explicit group scenes.