Reckless Home of Three

Steele, Nox, and Ant crossed her threshold and did not leave, watchful and solid in a way that made usefulness feel safer than intimacy.

For years she has gotten children out of situations too brutal to describe, hired people she actively dislikes, and lain awake wondering whether the work made her monstrous.

Steele is quietly grounding, Nox refuses every performance she tries to hide behind, and Ant already understands the cost of loving what institutions have written off.

A sprawling mansion, more money than she can use, a housekeeper who is more mother than staff, and Debbie, the house chicken with no sense of timing, fill the life she built.

What she cannot figure out is how to stand in front of men who look at her as if the difficult truth of her deserves to be chosen.

That truth is on its way, and she will need all three of them to want her after it arrives.