Sloane Thatcher returns to claim her family's high-end fetish empire, colliding with Tobias Stone, the estate steward whose piercing gaze ignites her dominant nature. His submission awakens something primal within her as leather-bound secrets unfold between them. Every touch becomes a power play, every command a test of wills. She came to secure her inheritance, but found herself claiming ownership of a man whose surrender burns hotter than the empire she fights to protect.