Unlocked Desires

Damien Voss is thirty-four and watching a $2.5 billion acquisition collapse in a conference room that already feels like a verdict. Sixteen months of work. Then unexplained discrepancies, a fleeing investor, and a board deciding who might take his seat.

At home the failure is quieter. He and Elena have already survived fertility charts, injections, two rounds of IVF, and two miscarriages. They bought a house for a loud family. The extra rooms are still empty. A new medication is supposed to give them one more chance. It does. It also changes the temperature of the marriage.

Elena becomes hungry in a way she cannot hide. Fantasies she used to bury arrive in daylight. Damien feels it too: a sharper edge at work, a restlessness he keeps calling stress. They tell themselves they can handle it. The hunger arrives before the honesty does.

Then Elena's best friend arrives with one bag and nowhere else to go. Lila is supposed to be a guest. She becomes the third point in a house already running too hot.

While Damien fights a saboteur inside his own company, the marriage he has been trying to hold together starts crossing lines he never planned for. Loyalty is tested. Desire stops staying polite. What they want from each other is no longer a private thought, and wanting it will cost them.

A high-heat contemporary erotic romance about marriage under pressure, workplace power, and the dangerous work of building a family anyway. For adult readers. Contains explicit sexual content, voyeurism, power exchange, fertility and pregnancy themes, corporate sabotage, and on-page violence.