Within the Walls: A Dark Romance

A perfect smile no one looked past.Then a quiet stranger comes for the door. He holds the key of his own craft - yet he wants her to be the one to turn it.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.He is exact, unhurried. 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 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.