I am Katya Waters. A survivor of violence. I fought death and won. So why do I feel so dead inside? Katya Waters is a small-town girl, mentally unprepared to deal with her deep, dark past. While walking in her sanctuary, her innocence was torn from her in the most brutal fashion- run to the ground as if she were an animal by a pack of vicious Hunters. After they wounded her spirit, they left her for dead. How does one overcome a debilitating, tragic event? By strength, perseverance, and an unrelenting will to survive. Out of desire, Katya no longer wanted to be the hunted. She hungered to be...

If you want to feel worthy, have worth. If you want to be useful, have a use. If you want to be loved, accept the love that is given freely. Katya Waters has finally made peace with her past, but the present and future are becoming a never-ending nightmare. At the end of Restraint, Katya fled back to her hometown, seeking solace from Ezra's constant micromanaging while hiding from her true feelings over what had happened to her at the hands of the men she had grown to trust. Before Katya can come to terms with the catastrophic events she had endured in Dominion, she is whisked away from the...

The townsfolk of Rusty Knob, West Virginia, see the Gillettes as ignorant wastes of space- worthless drunk sponges. As the youngest, Wynn may be a Gillette, but he doesn't act, nor think like one. At only seventeen, he studies hard, plays basketball harder, and works the hardest. Wynn is numb to his core, no longer feeling the hits that keep knocking him down to the ground. He's unable to see the bright future laid out before him. Royce Kennedy, a distant relative, tries all he can do to save the youngest generation of Gillettes from the dark shroud of bitter ignorance infecting them via...

Royce Kennedy believes he has the town of Rusty Knob and its citizens in the palm of his hand. For altruistic reasons, of course. A real man takes care of his land and the people on it, whether they want to accept the help or not. After fostering an orphan, adopting underprivileged kids, creating businesses to bring jobs back to the area, donating his time, energy, and money by founding the Community Growth: Life Skills Center, people are beginning to wonder if the man is running a campaign to earn the status of a saint. Royce's family is getting frustrated by idly watching their patriarch...

Master of Restraint and sadist, Dexter Hayes has always used the following adage as a form of self-preservation: never ask questions when you aren't prepared to hear the answers. Dexter turned a blind eye on Maitre du Jeu's activities, only doing as he was told without question. His sole focus for the past few years had been on his girlfriend, Monica James, and their housemate, Tobias Kline. When the riots began at Restraint, the two halves of Dexter's world collided, putting everyone at risk. Adelaide Whittenhower published the Mistress & Master of Restraint, exposing the secrets of...

For the past four years, Dalton Fontaine Marconi has been living incognito as Dalton Thompson. After his grandfather's murder, Dalton's self-preservation led him to Dominion, New York. As Restraint's resident antagonist, Dalton has been doing his mother's bidding. Olivia Fontaine always wants something from someone, and she always uses her son to get it. In order to deal with the ramifications, Dalton finds comfort in the fact that he's doing it for altruistic reasons. But thinking it and feeling it are not the same beast, and the pressure is suffocating him. As a masochist, Dalton balances...