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Tension and Tie-Downs

Tension and Tie-Downs

Riker, Slade Troy

Paperback

General GLBTQIA Fiction

ISBN13: 9798286769957
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 4 2025
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Royce is a beautiful enigma-sharp-tongued, emotionally guarded, and submissive by habit, not by choice. Beneath his polished intellect and commanding presence at grad school lies a history laced with bruises, both visible and not. He's mastered the art of surrender as a survival tactic-but never experienced submission as a sanctuary.

Enter Conner: a big, broad-shouldered college baseball player turned psychology grad student. Brash, flirty, and effortlessly dominant in ways he doesn't even realize, Conner is the opposite of everything Royce looks for-and yet, somehow, the only person who truly sees him.

What starts as a slow-burn collision of intellect and sarcasm erupts into an erotic awakening. But their journey isn't just about lust. As their dynamic deepens, they stumble into an underground Syndicate-an elite, secretive society where submission is performance, and dominance is currency. Here, chains are more than metal-they're political.

Drawn into this seductive underworld, Royce and Conner must navigate intense scenes, public rituals, jealousy, power struggles, and the ghosts of Royce's past, including a dangerously possessive former Dom named Eli. As emotional walls crumble and pleasure turns profound, they'll both face the question: Is this just power play-or something much deeper?

When the Syndicate demands full initiation, they're forced to switch roles in a ritual of trust that pushes their bond to the brink. And when Eli returns with a new victim, Royce must choose: revisit the hell he barely survived, or reclaim his voice, his body, and his future-on his own terms.

Tension & Tie-Downs is an intensely erotic, emotionally charged novel that blends BDSM power dynamics with heart-wrenching intimacy, richly drawn characters, and a love story forged in fire, silk, and steel. It's a story of healing through kink, of trust that's earned in sweat and surrender, and of two men who learn that the strongest bonds are chosen, not forced.

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