Sloane’s life is a machine that runs beautifully.

She’s the woman who never misses a deadline. The woman who remembers birthdays, confirms bookings, smooths awkward moments, and keeps everything looking effortless. Her home is immaculate. Her wardrobe is sharp. Her marriage is stable.

And her body—her want—has been quietly going offline for years.

Not because she doesn’t love her husband. She does. Mark is good. Reliable. The kind of man who shows up. The kind of man you build a life with. But somewhere between constant competence and constant being “fine,” the intimate part of Sloane became another task to manage: predictable, polite, and just… not hers anymore.

Then one night, after a day that leaves her feeling both overexposed and invisible, she finds herself staring at the truth she’s been circling for a long time:

She doesn’t want more chaos.

She wants structure.

She wants rules that aren’t about productivity—rules that are about desire. About attention. About being watched and chosen. About the exquisite relief of not being in charge for a while… and knowing she’s safe.

What starts as a private curiosity becomes a conversation she never expected to have—one that changes everything:

What if you and I built something new?
What if we made it deliberate?
What if we made it ours?

Together, Sloane and Mark begin negotiating a world most couples only fantasize about: a relationship inside a “system” of consent, boundaries, and ritual. Clear agreements. Clear stops. Clear starts. A language that turns fear into trust, and trust into heat. A private protocol where control becomes a choice, not a performance—and surrender becomes intimacy, not shame.

But building a system like this isn’t just about what happens in the bedroom.

It’s about power: who carries it, who craves it, who’s tired of it.
It’s about marriage: the quiet places resentment grows, the places tenderness still survives.
It’s about the kind of eroticism that doesn’t come from secrecy—it comes from being fully seen.

Because once Sloane steps into this new structure, she realizes something that terrifies her:

She doesn’t just want to try this.

She wants to be claimed by it.

And Mark—who has always loved her competence—must decide whether he can meet her in the place where she stops being the capable one, and becomes something far more dangerous:

Honest.

SYSTEMS is a scorching, emotionally intimate erotic romance about a high-functioning marriage that dares to reinvent itself—through negotiation, trust, and a private protocol that turns daily life into a slow burn of anticipation.

• A married couple who choose each other again (and again)

• Consent, boundaries, safewords, and aftercare—clearly and sensually handled

• Ritual, rules, and “protocol” that builds tension outside the bedroom

• Soft dominance with emotional intelligence and real intimacy

• High heat, high stakes (because the risk is always the truth)

• A relationship that becomes more loving the bolder it gets

If you like erotic romance that’s elegant, intense, and built on trust—if you love the idea of desire that feels both forbidden and deeply safe—then SYSTEMS is the book you’ve been waiting for.

Some people fall apart to find themselves.

Sloane builds a system.

And then she steps inside it.

Start the protocol.