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Reasonable Deception
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ISBN13: 9798254642664
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 17 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 17 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Maxwell Alexander-a brilliant but tormented college professor-leads a double life. By day, he lectures on criminal psychology; by night, he indulges an escalating sexual addiction at Pandora's, an exclusive underground club where power and desire blur into obsession. What begins as anonymous pleasure spirals into psychological warfare when a masked woman calling herself Ms. Deception enters his world, promising to feed his true addiction.
As Max's cravings pull him between fixation and self-disgust, his past resurfaces in the form of Lauren, the ex-lover who first awakened his taste for dominance and submission. Their volatile history mirrors the new corruption invading his present-anonymous emails, voyeuristic recordings, and messages signed only with the GreekΩ. When one of Max's students turns up dead after a drugged encounter at Pandora's, suspicion closes in, and his carefully separated lives collapse.
Each chapter peels back a layer of deceit: murders staged as sexual rituals, former partners returning as avengers, and twin sisters seeking revenge for a woman Max once destroyed. A cat-and-mouse game unfolds between Max and Deception, culminating in revelations that his persecutor may be everyone-and no one-he knows. Fires, false identities, and digital hauntings erase the boundaries between victim and predator until Max's own reflection becomes suspect.
Each chapter peels back a layer of deceit: murders staged as sexual rituals, former partners returning as avengers, and twin sisters seeking revenge for a woman Max once destroyed. A cat-and-mouse game unfolds between Max and Deception, culminating in revelations that his persecutor may be everyone-and no one-he knows. Fires, false identities, and digital hauntings erase the boundaries between victim and predator until Max's own reflection becomes suspect.
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