Description

Hunter Ward has everything—captain of the lacrosse team, campus heartbreaker, a future laid out in bright, easy lines. But one lecture in Professor Silas Hale's Sexual Psychology class cracks him open in ways he can't explain. Silas sees the truth beneath Hunter's swagger—the tension, the curiosity, the craving for something he's never dared to name.

When Hunter slips into Silas's office after dark, innocently looking for answers, he finds far more than theory. He finds a man who can read his body better than he can. A man who doesn't flinch at desire. A man with a secret room hidden behind polished wood and locked rules meant to break down everything Hunter thought he was.

Desire becomes heat. Heat becomes surrender. And surrender becomes a choice that changes everything.

But in the Obsidian Room, nothing is casual. Nothing is accidental.
And once Silas marks him with trust, discipline, and barely-contained hunger…
Hunter isn't just curious anymore.

He's claimed.