A Personal Shopper

OBEDIENCE HAS A PRICE.

The first time Dion speaks to her, Lucy feels small.

The first time Dion praises her, Lucy feels chosen.

By the time she understands what Dion truly wants, she is already hers.

A struggling fashion designer with empty pockets and a dying dream, Lucy takes a job as personal shopper to Dion Blacklock-Charterhouse: a beautiful, commanding doctor with a cruel husband and a taste for control. Dion can reduce her to tears with a single look, then make her glow with a single word.

Lucy holds a key to her employer's home. And soon she is using it to watch.

She hides in the wardrobe while Dion takes her lovers. She learns the sounds Dion makes, the way she commands a man to his knees, the games she plays behind her husband's back. Night after night, Lucy returns - breathless, ashamed, and craving more. Being wanted was never enough. Lucy wants to witness. And she wants, desperately, to be let in.

But Dion has known she was there from the very first time.

The vulnerability was a performance. The craving was the point. Every look that undid her, every door left unlocked, every secret slipped into her hands has been arranged to pull Lucy deeper - until watching is no longer enough for either of them.

Now Lucy has done something that cannot be undone, there are recordings she never agreed to, and a trap that was closing long before she ever knelt at her mistress's feet.

As submission becomes obsession and desire becomes a cage, Lucy must decide who holds the power - and whether she ever had it at all.