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What The Body Holds: Some secrets live beneath the skin
Paperback
ISBN13: 9789819452415
Publisher: Jdr Pub
Published: Jan 9 2026
Pages: 486
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.08 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What the Body Holds
Psychological Erotic Fiction
Dianne Chen has learned how to disappear inside her own life. A senior executive at a prestigious consulting firm, married into one of Taiwan's most powerful families, she has mastered containment. Her past is sealed away. Her desires unnamed. Her body compliant, even when her mind is not.
Before her marriage, there was James. The only man who ever made her feel fully seen. Loving him would have meant telling the truth about who she had been, so she left, choosing reinvention over exposure. She built a life that was successful, respectable, and safe.
When the strain of that erasure begins to surface, Dianne turns to Dr. Laurent, a hypnotherapist known for his work with memory, intimacy, and attachment. His sessions are precise, controlled, and disarmingly attentive. Under hypnosis, recollection returns as sensation rather than narrative. Boundaries soften. The past becomes vivid again.
As memories deepen, so does Laurent's presence. His guidance lingers. His questions press closer. Dianne finds herself opening doors she once fought to keep locked, even as she senses that not everything being uncovered belongs to her alone.
When James re-enters her life, the fragile architecture of her control begins to fail. Desire resurfaces. So does the realisation that vulnerability, once exposed, is not always met with care.
Some doors are opened in search of truth.
Others are opened by those waiting on the other side.
Content Note: This novel contains explicit sexual content, themes of professional misconduct, and depictions of sexual assault and trauma. Intended for adult readers.
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