Eight weeks from Election Day, Wells Ashford is a senior associate at Meridian Strategies, a boutique political consultancy near Dupont Circle that prides itself on being effective, discreet, and proudly amoral. Handed three dossiers designed as a quiet stress test, Wells is sent to negotiate with three women at three ideological extremes. Each route begins as a "professional" meeting and becomes something else—romance as leverage, intimacy as access, ideology as costume. As Wells discovers how easily sex, power, and money convert into one another, the real question stops being who he'll choose… and becomes what the choice will cost.