California Has No Rainy Season
by Rane X.
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About this Book
Rain has always believed she is ordinary. In a near-future America ruled by technology, capital, and the biological hierarchy of ABO, she is only a Beta—neither an Alpha destined for brilliance nor an Omega granted the romance the world loves to write about. From South Carolina to New York, she earns her way into Columbia to study literature and medieval romance, searching for a dignified place in a society that has little use for dreamers. Then she meets Celestina Valdieri. An elite Alpha, tech-company ruler, and heir to a shadowed family, Celestina possesses everything: wealth, power, order, beauty, and the kind of elegant control that makes people approach her willingly. Rain refuses to become prey, worshipper, possession, or pet. As a Beta, she cannot be marked—and cannot be completely owned. The harder Celestina tries to restrain herself, the closer she moves. The closer she comes, the more dangerously her control begins to fracture. There is no destined bond between an Alpha and a Beta, no instinct that can declare them one another's. So when desire becomes obsession, what will Celestina do to claim the one woman biology says can never belong to her?