All rights reserved. Beta read by Susan Foulkes. Cover image by sergeysukhorukov/123RF Stock Photos Smashword Edition, License Notes This work contains graphic language and sexual depictions of sometimes extreme consensual and semi-consensual female bondage and sadomasochism. It is intended for mature audiences only and is not suitable for persons under eighteen years of age. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce or redistribute this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information, address Darker Pleasures, webmaster at darkerpleasures.com. Jeri Eddington stepped through the narrow door of her husband’s study just as his Mont Blanc sliced through the air and slammed tip first into the eggshell-colored stucco wall.