Soft Erasure
Author: A.D. Levenson
Genre(s): Romance | Erotic | Adult | Dark
Total pages: 135
He can read her pulse on a screen. He has never once had to touch her to do it.
Amber Vale wakes in a place built to look like mercy. Cream walls, cashmere she didn’t buy, a wristband that scores how well she behaves. They call it recovery. They call the man who runs it her doctor.
She calls it what it is: a cage with the softest bars money can build.
He knows everything about her. Her sleep, her fear, the count her own body makes when she’s afraid. He watches. He conditions. He keeps his hand half an inch from her skin and never closes the distance, because a woman who is never touched is a woman who starts to beg for it.
Amber came in knowing how to survive men who want to own her. She did not come in ready for the one who wants to be wanted back.
There is a ten-month-old boy in this family, being raised by a woman who is not his mother. Amber is not permitted to say what he is to her. Not out loud, not once, not in a building that scores her for every breath she takes.
So she starts taking the program apart. Not with her fists. With its own paperwork, its own schedules, and the hours nobody thought to count. Every day brings her closer to the truth of why she was chosen. Every day the half-inch between his hand and her throat gets harder to hate.
The only thing more dangerous than the man who built this place is how badly she’s started to want him to mean it.
A slow-burn dark romance where he watches, he conditions, and he does not touch. Not until she decides he will. Underneath it: what a family will price, and what a woman will sign to get near her own child. For readers of Rina Kent, H.D. Carlton, and Penelope Douglas who want the ache drawn out to breaking.
Slow burn · touch-her-not · he falls first · morally grey obsession · forced proximity · captive heroine · a child she cannot claim · doctor and patient
Book One of The Caldren Program. A complete story with no cliffhanger. Dark romance with sensitive content; full content notes appear inside the book and at adlevenson.com/content.
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