A fallen attorney, his irresistible wife, and the dangerous ex–cellmate who knows hubby's darkest secret collide in a seductive power game that threatens their marriage, their morals, and their most primal interracial desires.
SYNOPSIS
John Armstrong thought he had finally escaped the worst chapter of his life. A once-promising young attorney, he returns home after humiliating months in county jail for multiple DUIs—a fall that shattered his confidence and left him clinging to his marriage. His wife, Stacey, remains his one anchor: voluptuous, angelic, lace-wrapped, sundress-loving, soft-voiced and innocently radiant, a woman whose strength and beauty only deepens John's fear that he is no longer man enough for a woman like her.
But the past isn't finished with John.
One quiet afternoon, Lester "Brick" Cole—John's former cellmate—arrives at the Armstrong home unannounced. Brick, a towering African-American man with a presence that seems to fill the doorway with the promise of violence, has evolved into something even more formidable. Once merely intimidating, Brick now radiates a controlled, assured masculinity—broad-shouldered, stylish, powerful in a way that is both refined and unmistakably primal. Wealthy, influential, and effortlessly charismatic, the Big Black Man prowls with a gravity Stacey can't help but notice.
Still so innocent, she doesn't know the truth: in jail, her husband was forced to write erotic stories about Brick dominating Stacey—humiliating fantasies John wrote in trembling shame, praying his beautiful wife would never learn what he'd been forced to imagine.
Brick hasn't come to reminisce. At his brand-new opulent hotel, amid the glitter of an elite charity gala for African-Americans, John's ex-cellmate drops the real reason for his return: the Big Black man wants a fresh set of stories—raw, intimate scenes drawn from actual moments John will be forced to watch unfold in person. And for John's compliance, Brick dangles a temptation almost impossible to refuse: a payoff so enormous, thick, and long, that it could rewrite the Armstrongs' future.
