Pictish Queendom

Bellatrix is a closer. Seven months of ruthless negotiation, nineteen people in the room, one signature—and the deal is done.

To celebrate, she bankrolls an outrageous night out: a private booking at The Strays, a discreet BDSM club hidden behind an unmarked door in Leeds. It's meant to be theatre. A harmless spectacle for bankers who treat thrill like a purchase order.

Then the club's front desk delivers an unexpected message: Master Welder—a senior Master who never performs for an audience—has been forced into a one-on-one scene as payment for a lost bet. Two hours. Private room. No cameras. No spectators.

Bellatrix volunteers before she can think twice. Used to being obeyed, she walks in armed with confidence, cash, she insists on being seen.

And in the heat, the smoke, and the steady scrape of control being taken from her hands, Bellatrix discovers something she didn't know she was searching for—something that feels like fear… and truth… and a hunger she can't negotiate her way out of.

Master Welder is a dark, provocative romance about power, pride, and what happens when a woman who controls everything finally meets someone who won't be bought.

Trust is a liability. Redemption is a fight.

Rowan is a forensic accountant who prefers numbers to people. Order, logic, and emotional distance have always kept him safe—until trust proves to be his most expensive miscalculation.

Jessica commits a violent crime shortly after graduating from high school. Condemned for a single moment, she learns how quickly the world stops caring about explanations, context, or the possibility of redemption.

Brought together by experimental nanotechnology, Rowan and Jessica form an unlikely alliance. What begins as a matter of survival becomes a process of transformation, forcing both of them to confront who they are when stripped of labels, expectations, and fear.

The Price of Staying is a story about finding your own path when none is offered, about listening to the quiet inner voice when the world demands obedience. It is a story of second chances—and of the truth that mistakes do not have to define a life.

Set in the grey space between good and evil, legality and morality, this novel explores how far people are willing to cross boundaries to become themselves—and what it truly costs to stay.