At eighteen, everyone takes the Match Test - a government-mandated exam that pairs submissives with their destined Dominant(s) for life. Fiercely independent and stubborn to her core, Sage never imagined her results would shatter her carefully guarded world.
Diagnosed with nothing, but suffering daily from unexplained burning pain, dizziness, and sensory overload, Sage has learned to survive alone. Doctors have only ever dismissed her. But when her Match Test assigns her to four dominant physicians - each powerful, skilled, and intimately trained to care for a sub like her - Sage is forced to confront the very people she fears most.
As her new Doms work to uncover the hidden illness stealing her strength, Sage must navigate a tangled dance of trust, submission, medical vulnerability, and the overwhelming fear of losing herself in their care. Pain has always been her enemy. Now, she must decide if love - messy, terrifying, and painfully real - is worth the risk.
Perfect for readers who crave slow-burn medical D/s, complex disability representation, protective dominance, and fierce heroines who refuse to bow easily.
She came in unconscious with a cracked skull and a past that read like a case file.
Melinda Sage wasn't supposed to survive the trauma buried in her bones. But she did.
What she didn't expect was Alex Karev. The surgeon who didn't ask stupid questions. The one who listened. The one who never left.
In a hospital full of chaos, the loudest thing was the silence where healing finally began.
This is a story about fractures-of the body, of the soul, of everything that shatters when you learn to trust again.
And the boy who slept on her lap because it was the only place he felt safe.
(This story is mature because of graphic content, not sexual)