This story is not a light summer breeze. It is a burden.

Major Faye Harold built her life on steel and strict police protocol. But when her daughter is brutally injured after a suspected kidnapping, the walls of the law crumble. Trapped in a nightmare of helplessness and guilt, Faye is drowning in the storm that rages both within and along the Miami coast.

Her salvation arrives in a flash of vibrant red hair and cold, captivating eyes: Vivian.

Vivian is the woman who found her daughter, but she is no savior. She is "The Red Lady", a powerful Dominant and hostess at the notorious Second Gate club. Her gentle touch is a "sharp scalpel of manipulation", her influence a form of "Magic" that transcends mere words and logic.

Faye, the hardened cop, is drawn into an embrace that is both sanctuary and ultimate surrender. She is willing to let the red-haired demon be her anchor in the chaos, clinging to the very woman the law would demand she arrest. Because in this world, dominance is not a perversion but the cold, hard necessity of survival.

Can a mother find peace in a love that demands her complete dependence? And what happens when the line between protector and predator is erased by a desperate, all-consuming need?

Welcome to the Second Gate. Prepare to bloody your palms.