Number one rule at the den: Don't fall in love. Narcissa never expected that she'd be the one to break that rule. Sacrificing everything for the ones she loved, she left everything she knew behind and became someone new. For the last thirty years, going by Nia, she's been fully committed to her work at the Empyreal Den. Not once had there ever been a problem. Until she takes on Hunter as a client. She's feeling things she shouldn't, and saying and doing things that could jeopardize her well-being. But it was impossible to turn away from something that made her feel alive for the first time in her life. As an ex-Informant under Markham's regime, Hunter searched for a way to fit into the village with the new laws. For most of his life, he'd been guarded and shut off from the rest of the world, to protect his brother as well as himself. His only escape for almost twenty-nine years has been the Empyreal Den, where he has been through one disappointing submissive after another. Once he got paired with Nia, everything changed. No one had ever been so perfect for him or accepted his demons as she did. Regardless of how hard he fought against it, he couldn't help but fall in love with her. To free themselves, they must find a way to free each other.