Bound by Shame and Lust

At thirty-five, Dr. Lacey Bonds is smart, sweet, and modest, and she keeps a craving so dark she hides it even from herself.

Finding her husband with two of his university students shatters the marriage and leaves her a second chance to learn what she actually wants.

She enters the notorious Second Circle Social Club, first with Ricardo, a beautiful young guitarist, and then with Janice, her bisexual, hedonistic best friend, who wants Lacey for herself.

The obsession she uncovers stands completely against her repressive upbringing and puts the hospital career she spent her adult life building at risk.

Unknown to Lacey, Derek Harrington—chairman of her hospital board, a widower, and the father of her favorite patient—has been watching that change with growing interest while guarding a secret of his own.

She is certain this gruff former Special Forces officer is the last man who can be allowed to see what she has become, and the only one she wants to show.