Lali

Trauma nurse Aly Cappellucci doesn’t need any more kinks. She likes the one she’s landed on just fine. To her, nothing could top the masked men she follows online. Unless one of those men was shirtless, heavily tattooed, and waiting for her in her bedroom. She dreams about being hunted by one in particular, of him chasing her down and doing deliciously dark things to her willing body. She never could have guessed that by sending one drunken text, those dreams would become her new reality.

Aurora is a single mom and ends up adopting her sister’s baby. She will do anything for her son and nephew- who she now calls her son. Then she receives a letter from a DNA service, stating that she has a half-sister in New Orleans. Fed up with Las Vegas, she buys a lottery ticket, only to win big. Needing a drastic change in her life, she buys an abandoned Victorian home on the bayou in New Orleans and is going to work at a dance studio to teach grannies how to shake it. She hires a carpentry company to remodel her home and soon meets Forest- the man who will break her walls down.

Bryony Thibodeaux has been dealt unfortunate cards since birth. After her father dies when she’s 14, her stepbrother, Buck, takes care of her. He becomes more controlling and eventually sinks his claws into Bryony, claiming her as his. Sometimes toxic relationships stir awake from the depths of the abyss, dragging you along until you’re just barely skimming the surface for air.