The Vegas lights are a rearview mirror, but the past is catching up fast.
Ex-Marine Jake and his brilliant wife, Chloe, are fugitives, hiding in a sun-bleached Texas nowhere. Their fragile new life is a fortress of paranoia, haunted by the trauma of what they escaped. On their kitchen counter sits a burner phone—a silent time bomb.
When it finally rings, it’s not a request. It’s an order.
The Bratva wants Chloe’s elite hacking skills for an impossible mission, and the crushing weight of the threat shatters her. To save her from a spiral of terror, Jake must unleash the one thing he's kept caged: the absolute authority of the commander. Their private "game" of dominance and submission is over. To keep her from breaking, his control must become her only reality.
Trapped and outgunned, they have one choice: play a "double game." They'll pretend to obey while planning to burn the entire syndicate to the ground. But the mission is darker than they ever imagined, forcing Chloe to become "Vega," an operative who must walk into the depraved world of a high-stakes, predatory target.
With her husband's voice in her ear as her only anchor, Vega must endure the unendurable to get the access they need. As the lines between survival, pleasure, and total control blur, the "boiling frog" descent begins. They've been forged into a two-person army, but in a war on two fronts, the only way out is through.
This is a dark, high-octane thriller. It contains intense themes of psychological dominance, dubious consent, and high-stakes suspense, and is intended for mature audiences only.
Genre: Thriller
Ex-Marine Jake and his brilliant wife, Chloe, are fugitives, hiding in a sun-bleached Texas nowhere. Their fragile new life is a fortress of paranoia, haunted by the trauma of what they escaped. On their kitchen counter sits a burner phone—a silent time bomb.
When it finally rings, it’s not a request. It’s an order.
The Bratva wants Chloe’s elite hacking skills for an impossible mission, and the crushing weight of the threat shatters her. To save her from a spiral of terror, Jake must unleash the one thing he's kept caged: the absolute authority of the commander. Their private "game" of dominance and submission is over. To keep her from breaking, his control must become her only reality.
Trapped and outgunned, they have one choice: play a "double game." They'll pretend to obey while planning to burn the entire syndicate to the ground. But the mission is darker than they ever imagined, forcing Chloe to become "Vega," an operative who must walk into the depraved world of a high-stakes, predatory target.
With her husband's voice in her ear as her only anchor, Vega must endure the unendurable to get the access they need. As the lines between survival, pleasure, and total control blur, the "boiling frog" descent begins. They've been forged into a two-person army, but in a war on two fronts, the only way out is through.
This is a dark, high-octane thriller. It contains intense themes of psychological dominance, dubious consent, and high-stakes suspense, and is intended for mature audiences only.
Genre: Thriller
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