According to the world, Garret Edward has it all—women, fame, and fortune—but his flirtatious, confident façade hides deep insecurities from a childhood fraught with neglect. A sadist who strives for perfection, Garret focuses on pleasing others in order to fulfill his own selfish desires.

He's nothing more than a bad, little boy with an insatiable need for attention.

Guarded and living her fantasies through the characters she writes onto paper, Lissa Groff doesn't know what to make of Garret's magnetic pull threatening to overcome the control she holds over her life. His touch is drug-like and intoxicating, but she knows the end product of compulsive dependence.

He offers freedom.

She fears addiction.
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Can Garret coax Lissa to submit to his desire to pleasure her through pain, or will it be her needs that bring him to his knees?