Laws That Bind

Nicole Michaels knows how to build a life. She has created successful businesses, raised a family, and become the woman everyone trusts to remain composed when the pressure rises. What she has never learned is how to put that control down.Frank Lawson is six years younger, married, respected, and dangerously observant. He is also her son's football coach-and the first man who sees the exhaustion beneath Nicole's strength. What begins as restrained attraction beneath small-town stadium lights becomes a secret agreement founded on consent, discipline, and the promise that neither of them will endanger the families and reputations surrounding them.In private, Frank gives Nicole the freedom to surrender. In public, they return to the lives they have carefully built. Yet secrecy cannot stop desire from changing them. As Frank's legal career becomes a political future and Nicole's need to be understood grows more urgent, the boundaries that once protected them begin to feel like another kind of prison.Set against the close scrutiny of a Tennessee community, Laws That Bind is an emotionally charged work of contemporary erotic fiction about power, marriage, ambition, identity, and the consequences of choosing the one person who can reach the parts of you no one else sees.Contains explicit sexual content, consensual BDSM, infidelity, and adult themes. Intended for readers 18+. This is the first book in a continuing story and ends on a cliffhanger.