Tethered
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MatureOngoing16m
Last published Thu, Apr 10, 2025
Beneath the polished surface of New York City's elite, Vienna Celeste Moreau lives a life of curated perfection-designer shoes, Ivy League lectures, and the ever-tightening grip of her father's expectations. A daughter shaped, not raised. But when a business deal introduces her to Luca Thorne Valemount-powerful, enigmatic, and thirteen years her senior-Vienna stumbles into a world of velvet shadows and sharp truths.
Drawn to his dominance and the sanctuary he offers, she finds herself unraveling everything she's been taught to hide. What begins as temptation soon becomes survival, as secrets from her childhood begin to surface-secrets tangled in control, manipulation, and betrayal that go deeper than she ever imagined.
Together, Vienna and Luca must navigate desire, power, and the ghosts of a past that refuses to stay buried. But as the truth sharpens around them, love alone may not be enough to sever the ties that bind her.
A tale of reckoning, reclamation, and the dangerous beauty of surrender-Tethered is where passion meets resistance, and freedom is anything but simple.
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