A Calculated
Obsession
Some obsessions begin with desire.
The dangerous ones begin with recognition.
Nathaniel Brant is accustomed to control.
Lydia Shaw has never been interested in giving hers away.
The Premise
Lydia Shaw enters Nathaniel Brant's world to uncover the truth.
Retained as a confidential risk consultant during an investigation inside Brant International, Lydia is given something few people receive from Nathaniel: access. To his companies. To his inner circle. And, increasingly, to the man himself.
But the deeper Lydia looks, the less comfortably professional the investigation becomes. The questions surrounding Brant International begin reaching closer to home, while the carefully negotiated boundaries between her and Nathaniel become harder to contain.
Nathaniel is accustomed to controlling the variables.
Lydia refuses to become one of them.
And neither is prepared for what happens when suspicion, power and desire begin demanding the same thing:
trust.
Why Readers May Connect
Nathaniel Brant
He built a world around control. Then invited in a woman capable of seeing through it.
Control becomes negotiation.
Suspicion becomes intimacy.
And recognition becomes something neither intended to need.
Lydia Shaw
She notices what other people overlook and asks what they would rather leave unanswered.
Tone & Experience
A romance built in the spaces between control and uncertainty.
A Calculated Obsession unfolds through psychological tension, corporate intrigue and an increasingly intimate contest between two people accustomed to relying on themselves.
Danger builds alongside desire.The investigation deepens, suspicion complicates trust, and intimacy develops through boundaries that are discussed, tested and deliberately chosen.
This is a dark romance that allows its darkness to come from more than sexual intensity. Power has consequences. Violence has weight. Control is never quite as absolute as Nathaniel believes—and Lydia is never simply along for the ride.
Expect tension built through every shift in power, characters who refuse to make things easy for one another, and desire that becomes more dangerous once something emotional is at stake.
Content Expectations
Before you step inside
A Calculated Obsession is an adult dark romance containing explicit sexual content, consensual power exchange and mature themes. The wider story also includes captivity, coercion, violence and morally confronting behaviour.
- Explicit sexual content
- Consensual dominance/submission and power exchange
- Restraint and consensual breath/throat control
- Kidnapping, confinement and non-consensual sedation
- Coercive situations and manipulation
- Physical violence, blood and injury
- Firearms and threats of violence
- Killing and references to ordered deaths
- Criminal activity, corruption and abuse of institutional power
- Grief involving a missing/deceased family member
Purchase Options
Where desire becomes a decision
Ready to step inside?
A Calculated Obsession is available from Amazon.