Within the Walls: A Dark Romance

A perfect smile no one looked past.

One flawless surface. The walls she built herself — they look like they cost her nothing, and cost her the most. She crafts what others are allowed to see, so no one thinks to look beneath.

Then a quiet stranger comes for the door. He is exact, unhurried. He holds the key of his own craft — yet he wants her to be the one to turn it.

She should be afraid of his method. She is. But that is not what frightens her most.

A chamber tragedy of capture and recognition — a dark romance with the nerve of literary fiction, for adult readers: obsession, power, surrender. Contains explicit content; see the content note inside.

For readers of Butcher & Blackbird, Lights Out, and Verity.

Content note. A dark romance for adult readers — explicit, and honest about what it holds: captivity, a steep imbalance of power, consent challenged and spoken through inside a relationship that grows teeth and tenderness in equal measure, psychological control, and moments of real fear. It is fiction, written with care, and it does not offer itself as a model for real life. Come to it when you have room for it.