Description: Jason Mercer knows exactly how fragile a career can be. A seasoned action actor from Guangzhou, he takes a risky role in a same-sex art film and finds himself sharing long nights, brutal scenes, and impossible tension with Adrian Vale, the famous co-star everyone thinks they already know. What begins as friction on set sharpens into hunger, secrecy, and a relationship neither man can afford to name. One wrong move could hand the press a scandal, wreck the film, and drag both of them under. Elsewhere in the same restless city, psychiatrist Elliot Hart meets Gavin Sterling, a wealthy art investor trying to function after a devastating sexual assault. Gavin is elegant, evasive, and far more damaged than he first appears. Elliot means to help him hold himself together, but each session pulls them deeper into territory neither of them can justify. Concern turns intimate. Intimacy turns addictive. And the line between healing and harm begins to disappear. As gossip swells, jealousy cuts deeper, and trauma refuses to stay buried, both relationships are pushed toward the same question: when desire becomes the only thing keeping you alive, how much of yourself are you willing to lose to keep it? Author Biography: Sofia Blake specializes in romantic suspense where love and danger collide in exhilarating storylines.