The rain is mean, the dry cleaner has been closed since 2019, and Valentina Cruz is done paying rent in bruises. She is twenty, sharp-mouthed, and not innocent. She knows what a body like hers is worth to the wrong kind of man. Daniel Mercer is the other kind. Thirty-six. A lawyer who still does community theater. Newly separated, with a seven-year-old daughter he only gets on weekends and a spare room he does not know how to offer without sounding like a problem.
He buys her a grilled cheese. He gives her a lock. He says there are no expectations. Vale believes him. That is the problem. Kindness is more dangerous than meanness, and she has a filthy mind, a good ass, and a stubborn need to turn a gift into something she chose. Taken In, Part One is a contemporary erotic romance about a runaway who will not be rescued and a careful man who will not collect. Explicit.
Consenting adults. The story continues in Part Two.
The rain is mean, the dry cleaner has been closed since 2019, and Valentina Cruz is done paying rent in bruises. She is twenty, sharp-mouthed, and not innocent. She knows what a body like hers is worth to the wrong kind of man. Daniel Mercer is the other kind. Thirty-six. A lawyer who still does community theater. Newly separated, with a seven-year-old daughter he only gets on weekends and a spare room he does not know how to offer without sounding like a problem.
He buys her a grilled cheese. He gives her a lock. He says there are no expectations. Vale believes him. That is the problem. Kindness is more dangerous than meanness, and she has a filthy mind, a good ass, and a stubborn need to turn a gift into something she chose. Taken In, Part One is a contemporary erotic romance about a runaway who will not be rescued and a careful man who will not collect. Explicit.
Consenting adults. The story continues in Part Two.