California Has No Rainy Season

Rain thought Celestina was just an unusually wealthy Beta who had agreed to foster the stray cat she rescued. She was wrong. Celestina Valdieri is an elite Alpha, heir to a mafia dynasty and the young CEO of a powerful tech empire. Wealth, influence, and control have always come naturally to her. Rain, on the other hand, is a warm, impulsive literature student and an ordinary Beta—the kind of girl who would jump into freezing water to save a drowning kitten, then worry about rent the next day. They were never supposed to belong to the same world. But Celestina became fascinated by her. She hid her designation, concealed her family name, rode bikes with Rain, fostered her cat, and slowly worked her way into the Beta’s life. At first, Rain was only something rare and interesting. Then Celestina realized she was no longer willing to let go. When the truth comes out, Rain decides to take her cat back and draw a line between them. For an Alpha who has spent her entire life getting what she wants, possessing someone is easy. Being chosen freely is much harder. A sapphic ABO romance between a mafia-tech Alpha CEO and a bright-hearted literature-student Beta—about power, freedom, obsession, tenderness, and the difference between wanting someone and truly loving them.