She's falling apart. He's very, very good with restraints.Everyone in Pinkerton Falls knows Camille Voss.Former cheerleader. Former prom queen. Former mayor.And lately, the woman everyone tries not to make eye contact with.Camille has spent her entire adult life perfecting the art of looking like she has everything under control. Beautiful. Confident. Sexy. Successful.It's all a performance.A disastrous marriage taught her early that money means safety, needing someone gives them the power to hurt you, and appearances can hide almost anything. So Camille learned to chase admiration instead.Now she's lost the election, lost the respect of the town, and is rapidly losing her grip on the carefully constructed woman she's pretended to be for decades.Anton Volkov sees right through her.As Dakota House North's legendary Dom trainer and dungeon master, Anton has built his life around discipline, patience, consent, and absolute control. He knows the difference between a woman who wants to surrender-and one who's desperately trying to hold herself together.Beneath Camille's outrageous flirting, provocative clothes, cougar reputation, and relentless hunger for attention, Anton sees something everyone else has missed.She's exhausted.And she has absolutely no idea how to ask for what she needs.Anton does.When Camille steps inside Dakota House with him, she expects restraints, dominance, and maybe the kind of sex that will make her forget her life is imploding.Instead, Anton teaches her that surrender isn't weakness. Boundaries aren't rejection. Discipline isn't cruelty. And being held securely doesn't mean being trapped.For the first time in her life, Camille meets a man who isn't dazzled by her performance, embarrassed by her sexuality, interested in her money, or intimidated by her mistakes.He simply sees her.And the more Camille lets go, the more she discovers something terrifying.Anton isn't giving her control.He's showing her she had it all along.But helping Camille surrender may be the easy part.Because the legendary Dom who knows exactly how to bind, guide, and protect the people entrusted to his care is about to discover there is one thing even he can't control.Falling in love with her.LOVE BOUND is a steamy, emotionally intense later-in-life small-town romance featuring an experienced older Dom, a fallen small-town queen rebuilding her life, BDSM and D/s dynamics, reputation redemption, hurt/comfort, healing after an abusive marriage, a protective and devastatingly competent hero, a heroine reclaiming her power, and a hard-earned HEA. LOVE BOUND is a stand alone story set in the Pink Matchmakers/Pinkerton Falls Universe.
