Mitchell Felding has perfected the art of patience. Years of silence, of watching, of listening, have honed his instincts into something sharper than morality. The Beast within him no longer whispers — it storms.
A woman named Sandra Williams becomes his latest fascination. Separated, contradictory, forever lying to herself and others, she is everything Mitchell craves. Through hacked emails, hidden microphones, and nights of listening in the dark, he catalogues every secret until he draws her into his orbit. What begins as a dinner date beneath storm clouds ends in her destruction on a rain-lashed beach. Sandra is gone, and the Beast is fed — but not for long.
Sam, Mitchell’s wife, remains trapped in their sterile marriage. Therapy rules dictate when she will and will not be touched. She clings to childish relics — a teddy bear named Grace, a bracelet of charms — while secretly pursuing fertility treatments without Mitchell’s knowledge. Her repression fuels his contempt, even as she mistakes his rage for devotion.
Felicity Snow, dazzling and manipulative, continues to seduce, humiliate, and tempt. Yet even she underestimates the storm she has invited. One turn of a bracelet, forced onto the wrong wrist, makes her Mitchell’s prisoner as much as his lover.
And then there is Tony Brindell — once a queasy witness, now a compromised accomplice. Drawn deeper by Mitchell’s logic and seduced by Felicity’s allure, Tony bargains away a girl — fourteen, Catholic, untouched — in exchange for his own indulgence.
By the time Sam naively hears the phrase “we’ll work it out” and mistakes it for counselling, the truth is far darker. Deals have been struck. Secrets sterilised. The storm has become a man.
–Michael (Dark fiction. Author of SEETHINGS (the first book), free for a limited time)
Love, lust, and lies collide on land and water. A temptress, a faithful wife, and a photographer haunted by shadows drift into a world of seduction, betrayal, and control.
Marriages unravel, secrets surface, and civility dissolves into primal instinct. Nothing is safe. No one is innocent.
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