Joey Stanton moves to New York to start fresh—a new job, a new apartment, a life far from home. But when Damon Mitchell, her quiet and unsettling new lab assistant, enters her world, nothing stays simple for long. He’s attentive in ways that feel wrong, present in places he shouldn’t be, and slowly, Joey realizes he doesn’t just want to know her—he already acts like he owns the parts of her life she hasn’t even given away.