Shay has learned how to disappear in plain sight. She moves through her days quietly-head down, emotions locked away, body trained to endure more than it should. Control is survival. Distance is safety. And no one ever looks close enough to see what she's learned to hide. Until someone does. Lilith Armstrong is everything Shay isn't allowed to want: composed, authoritative, untouchable. A woman who understands the body down to its smallest fracture-and sees far too much when she looks at Shay. What begins as instruction slowly becomes attention. What feels like guidance sharpens into something heavier, more dangerous, and impossible to ignore. Between the anatomy of the human body and the anatomy of restraint, lines blur. Power shifts. Desire festers in the quiet moments where it shouldn't exist. And Shay must decide whether being seen is worth the risk of being undone. Anatomy of Restraint is a dark, slow-burn psychological romance about control, obsession, and the intoxicating danger of crossing boundaries that were never meant to bend.

!! This is Book Two in the In Her Veins series and is best read after Book One !! Forever was supposed to be freedom. Instead, it's becoming a trap.

Harlow Sandoval knows how to survive. She's always been known as the 'Sandoval Survivor,' the final girl of notorious serial killer, Jason Randall. When she's asked to become the leader of a 'final girl's support group,' she knows she can't refuse. Even if escaping the horrors of her past is exactly what she wants. But when the girls start disappearing again, and Jason Randall escapes prison, Harlow knows the only way forward is to revisit her past.

Noa Carter, everyone knows her name, she has the money and she has the looks, her parents happen to be the head of school so she has the power. She's captain of the cheer team that she joined because her parents forced her to, they just want her to be successful and do well for her future Zara Jones, she and Noa have a special kind of hatred for one another, well Zara is the one who hates her ever since the two broke up, Noa just admires everything she does. Zara has money and looks, everyone knows her name but she doesn't pay attention to it, she just gets along with her day the best she can. Noa admires Zara, falling head over heels for her for the past few years. But they don't talk, Noa has to love her from afar, loved her in secret. But things change when Zara finds herself in a relationship with Noa's brother, Caden. It started at a party, the two drank, she knows he has liked her, he knows that his sister likes her, he kissed her, they went to the bedroom, they woke up, and then he was calling her "babe". She soon attended family dinners after accepting the fact she will be in a relationship with Caden, and going on trips with him while Noa sat and watched what happened between her brother and Zara, while feeling jealous and heartbroken in the process.

Stephanie Walker is eighteen, moving across the country from Los Angeles to New York to begin her dream: law school at NYU. A new city, a new home, new friends, new everything. She's excited, but sleepless nights, old wounds, and quiet struggles follow her everywhere. She wants to live like any other college student, to blend in, to feel normal, but life hasn't been simple, and surviving on her own is harder than she expected. Every late night, every study session, every solitary drive home reminds her that life doesn't come with easy answers. Some nights, she leans on quiet habits she'd never tell anyone about, just to make it to morning. Elena Shay is thirty-two, NYU's Dean and a respected law professor. Her life is built on control, precision, and endless responsibility. At work, she's commanding, elegant, untouchable. Outside it, she's soft, warm, and human, but never careless. Elena doesn't date casually; she doesn't waste time or energy on anything that isn't worth it. She's deliberate, certain, and careful... Until Stephanie. Stephanie isn't just another student. She's sharp, captivating, and unafraid to be herself in a way that draws Elena in deeper than it should. Suddenly, the carefully maintained line between professional and personal life begins to blur. The rules, the expectations, the life Elena's worked so hard to control all scream that nothing between them can ever happen. And yet, the pull becomes impossible to ignore. As their worlds collide, Stephanie discovers a side of life she's never dared to touch: warmth, comfort, attention, and desire from someone who sees her fully, not as a girl with a "rough" childhood, but as a woman. Together, Elena and Stephanie fall into chaos, vulnerability, and longing they didn't know they were missing. Every glance, every touch, and every moment carries risk. Risk of exposure, of judgment, of everything crashing down, all shaped by the choices resting in their hands.

"𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙚. 𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙬, 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙪𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙚." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Born into fame. Forced into the spotlight. When her mother's fashion empire falls into scandal, 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐤 is automatically involved, and her image is on the line. 𝐒𝐤𝐲𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐞 is a cold, powerful attorney, hired to silence the scandal and control London. But some entanglements blur the line between control and desire. And not all of them are meant to be undone.

I have no doubt she could feel my breathing on her face. I grabbed her chin with my hand and pulled her face even closer. "I'm not telling you to leave because I don't like your dick. I'm telling you to leave because I want your dick. I want it inside of me right now, and I want it in there until I fucking pass out. But I am a faithful person, even if I don't like the fucking bastard I am married to. So again I say. Get. The fuck. Out." I lowly growled at her.

Harper Bardot is a twenty-one year old senior Business Administration Major with a minor in marketing who is hoping to get her dream internship at The West Company for her fall semester. Parker West is the CEO and owner of The West Company at the age of only twenty five years old and strikes an instant interest in Harper from round one of the internship interviews. When Harper is hired as the Marketing intern she quickly notices that there are rather strange things happening all around her, both with the company and Parker. Will Harper be able to uncover the secrets of the company and Parker's heart or will everything come crashing down around her? *** "Oh and Ms. Bardot?" She questioned "Yes?" I replied just as the elevator dinged and the doors started to shut "Please try to refrain from staring at my ass from now on, it's really not professional." She stated with a smirk I barely caught before the doors sealed her off from my view *** ⚠️ WARNING CONTAINS SEXUAL CONTENT⚠️ • (Sex Scenes) Chapters 24, 36, & 37 ‼️TRIGGER WARNING‼️ • (Torture) Chapter 27, 41, & 48 • (Explosions) Chapter 38, 45, & 50 • (Guns/Shootings) Chapter 38, 39, 42, 44, 49, & 50 • (Death) Chapter 39, 40, 42, 49, & 50 • (Sexual Assault) Chapter 41 *** 🧡Available Exclusively on Wattpad 🧡 *** [[Word Count: 59,000-61,000 words]] Written By Morgan Giglio Cover designed by viverin on Fiverr

"Ah fuck baby please" she begged as I fucked her hard "please what hmm" I ask knowing exactly what she wants