Weekend cocktails, journaling in her cozy old apartment, and casual, passionate sex. As a successful author, Zoe loves romantic stories—as long as they're not her own. Because in real life, love means confinement and stress for her. So she stays independent, goes out partying, has one-night stands, and pushes her career forward. Zoe is convinced: she doesn't need a relationship. When she meets the attractive Mael, everything seems perfect. He, too, wants nothing to do with a committed relationship and offers Zoe exactly what she wants—intimacy without obligation. But suddenly, this intimacy doesn't feel so casual anymore, and cracks begin to appear in Zoe's carefully constructed life plan. Ultimately, she embarks on a brutally honest journey of self-discovery and has to answer quite a few questions: What is expected of us in relationships? Why do we always want what we can't have? And why has she really been single for so many years? An electrifying millennial novel by SPIEGEL bestselling author Sophia Como