by Sara Cate
Part of Salacious Legacy
First published 2025
Camille Aubert arrives at Jack St. Claire's Parisian apartment to return a lost love letter she found in a book. Instead, she gets mistaken for a job candidate and hired as his live-in nanny. Jack runs a new kink club while raising his daughter alone, using work to avoid processing his grief. He desperately needs help with childcare before his situation deteriorates further. After moving in, Camille finds a mysterious room that reveals Jack's involvement in ropes and bondage. She becomes fascinated by this hidden aspect of his life and determined to understand the broken man behind it. Their professional relationship shifts as sexual tension builds between them. Camille finds herself attracted to Jack despite his emotional walls and unresolved mourning. She pushes him in unexpected ways while he struggles with his past losses. Their connection intensifies as boundaries dissolve, but Jack's grief threatens to sabotage what they're building together.
Genres: romance, adult, adult-fiction, erotica, dark-romance, contemporary-romance
Vibes: dark, emotional, intimate, melancholic, sensual, slow-burn
Tropes: emotional-healing, forced-proximity, power-imbalance, slow-burn
Setting: Paris
Period: Contemporary
371 pages · Paperback · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Content warnings: death, explicit-sexual-content