Raya Bennett was never supposed to be in that meeting. A junior marketer from New York, she was only sent to Boston to help contain a marketing disaster threatening one of the country’s most elite luxury hotel brands. It should have been simple: keep her head down, survive the meetings, and prove she deserved a bigger role in the company. Instead, within hours of arriving, she watches her boyfriend of seven years kiss another woman in the glittering lobby of her hotel. Humiliated and heartbroken, Raya barely has time to process the betrayal before she’s forced into a high-stakes executive meeting she has no business being in. Surrounded by powerful investors and executives twice her age, she feels completely out of place… until Killian Blackwood walks into the room. Boston’s wealthiest and most powerful CEO. Cold. Untouchable. Brilliant. A man whose name alone makes people nervous. Killian immediately notices the quiet girl sitting at the end of the conference table — the one trying desperately to hide the fact that her entire world just fell apart downstairs. But beneath Raya’s soft voice and junior title, he sees something nobody else does: intelligence, ambition, and a dangerous kind of vulnerability that instantly captivates him. The meeting changes everything. Because by the end of the night, Raya finds herself aboard Killian’s private jet to Paris, swept into a world of luxury, temptation, and desires she never allowed herself to imagine. What begins as an escape from heartbreak quickly becomes something far darker and far more intoxicating. Together, they uncover hidden fantasies, forbidden cravings, and kinks neither of them has ever dared share before. #Starry Writing Marathon