{"product_id":"preorder-bonds-of-shame-bonds-of-lust-jordyn-haart","title":"PREORDER | Bonds of Shame, Bonds of Lust - Jordyn Haart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReleases on 9\/29\/26\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e-- All Pre-Orders are available for shipping by media mail or pick up in-store\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEach preorder will come with a signed bookplate, sticker sheet, and metal bookmark.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDr. Lacey Bonds is a respected pediatric cardiologist. She is also a thirty-five-year-old 'good girl' who has never been allowed to want anything for herself. First the overbearing father who raised her after her mother walked out. Then the cold, almost sexless marriage to a husband who spent fifteen years teaching her that desire was shameful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eUntil the afternoon she catches him in a living room threesome. Her marriage ends in one brutal moment. Something long buried in her cracks open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eOr maybe it finally wakes up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eGuided by her hedonistic, pansexual best friend Janice and Spanish guitarist Ricardo, Lacey begins saying yes to the desires she has suppressed her entire life. Soon she's saying yes to everything. Every temptation. Every fantasy. Every dangerous impulse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAs \u003cb\u003eshame transforms into arousal\u003c\/b\u003e and arousal spirals into obsession, Lacey's carefully ordered world starts to unravel under the weight of cravings she can no longer control, and the increasingly predatory attention of the people helping her explore them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eShe does not know how to stop. She is not sure she wants to. She is no longer sure who would be left if she did.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eNow, she finds herself falling for the formidable father of her favorite little patient, \u003cb\u003ea desire very much not allowed\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eGruff, powerful billionaire Derek Harrington has always intimidated her. A widower, former Special Forces officer, and head of the hospital board, he is the one man who looks at her like he's actually paying attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBehind the hardass exterior is a father raising his sick little girl Jessica on his own. 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