In a world where Omegas are valued as mere genetic prizes and their destinies are drawn to submit to the instincts of Alphas, 'Pie'—a pure-blooded Omega heiress—despises those savage instincts to her very bones. When her heat suppressants begin to fail, leaving her body ravaged by drug resistance, and her family starts herding her toward the cage of an arranged marriage, her only escape is to flee and hide in the quietest, most secluded dead-end corner of the Central Library.
There... she meets 'Jane,' a strict female librarian as calm and immovable as stone.
Jane is merely a 'Beta'—an ordinary class devoid of oppressive pheromones, devoid of boundless power, and incapable of sinking fangs into the nape of anyone's neck to forge a bond. Yet, when the venom of heat torments Pie until she nearly burns to ash, the clean scent of soap and the steady hands of this Beta become the only things in the world capable of extinguishing the flames inside her body without stripping away her human dignity.
From a secret agreement after closing hours to a profound relationship inside a glass room that must remain hidden.
Amidst the walls of class division, the pressure of a powerful clan, and past wounds that constantly remind a Beta to know her place, will they choose to preserve their safety in the shadows, or dare to hold hands and step out to defy the rules of the outside world?
When true love... requires no pheromones to dictate it.