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The Shape of Lust
Paperback
Series: The Six Sins of Desire, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 21 2026
Pages: 406
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Six Sins of Desire
Lust does not arrive as hunger.
It arrives as disruption.
Talia Monroe has built her life on discipline. As a reputation management strategist, she understands how to contain damage, control narrative, and keep emotion from becoming a liability. Desire has never been part of the plan. In the past, it has cost her her clarity, her autonomy, and her sense of self. She has learned that lust does not ask for permission before it takes.
Grant Lawson is a man defined by restraint. Power has afforded him privacy, stability, and a carefully managed distance from vulnerability. He is accustomed to being wanted for what he represents, not for who he is. Silence has always felt safer than honesty. Control has always felt like protection.
When Talia is quietly brought in to manage a sensitive situation tied to Grant's world, the attraction between them is immediate and dangerous. It does not announce itself as desire. It surfaces as awareness. As irritation. As a physical response neither of them welcomes nor trusts.
What begins as professional proximity becomes increasingly difficult to contain. Boundaries blur without being crossed. Silence replaces clarity. Old patterns resurface through familiarity and assumption. The presence of a woman from Grant's past complicates everything, threatening to pull both of them back into habits they believed they had outgrown.
As lust presses against restraint, Talia is forced to confront her deepest fear: that desire will once again cost her her identity. Grant must face his own pattern of avoidance and decide whether silence will leave him repeating the very mistakes that have always left him alone.
The Shape of Lust is a high-heat, psychologically intimate exploration of desire as threat rather than reward. It is a story about proximity that destabilizes, intimacy that carries risk, and the quiet choices that determine whether wanting leads to loss or transformation.
This is not a romance about indulgence.
It is a story about what it costs to want without losing yourself.
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