The Captive (The Keyholder, #3)

Overview: Shannon works a day job to pay for her writing habit. She likes all types of romance, but especially m/m romance, hot, hot, erotic romance, paranormal romance and menages. Not that she has experienced many of these, but she wouldn't like to rule them out for the future. She is multi-published in m/m romance and has recently ventured into werewolves and vampires. Shannon lives in the South and thinks everybody should. She loves to travel, spending a great deal of time chasing down a reluctant muse. A boring night on third shift becomes infinitely more interesting when Cody runs into Tony, a man he met at Jakes BDSM club only a couple of weeks before. Jake had said the man was his cousin, but Cody learns Tony had actually been Jakes sub for over three years. Already jealous over what he thought was Jake's interest in the man, Cody is devastated by the idea his handsome Dom may have lied to him. Or worse yet, that Jake could be cheating on him, seriously jeopardizing the trust so essential to a D/s relationship. Cody runs, driving aimlessly until he finds a motel where he can crash, lick his wounds and try to figure out what to do. Jake goes after him, using a tracking device on Codys phone and realizes he has only one chance to save the love between them. He has to make it good or risk losing his lover and his sub forever. AUTHORS NOTE: I wondered what would happen if two people who had been best friends discovered they were in love, but one of them was a Dom. What would that journey look like? Would they be able to make it as a couple? This series chronicles that journey, with both Cody and Jake having to find their way. I decided to serialize their story to show the slow progression of a complicated relationship. This relationship happens to be a D/s coupling, but I think any new love story has potential pitfalls and requires a lot of give and take.