Axe Marks the Spot

Lindsey Clark is drowning. Balancing twelve-hour nursing shifts with a grueling custody battle leaves her zero room to breathe, let alone rely on anyone else. Exhausted from making every decision alone, a late-night lapse in judgment leads her to the anonymous profile of @DomInTheWoods. His online presence promises the one thing she craves: someone else taking the reins. What starts as a strictly digital arrangement quickly becomes her ultimate escape.

Dane Woods enforces an ironclad rule: control requires distance. As an elite online Dominant, he provides structure and discipline without the complications of physical or emotional entanglement. No real names. No meeting up. But his newest submissive, Lindsey, disrupts his calculated boundaries, challenging his restraint with every message.

When a family emergency forces Dane to step in as the director of a local wilderness youth camp, his private and public lives collide. Lindsey is standing at check-in, dropping off her son.

Now, the commanding voice from her headphones belongs to the rugged, flannel-wearing woodsman running her kid's summer camp. With their real identities exposed, the strict boundaries they both relied on begin to splinter. Dane can no longer hide behind a screen, and Lindsey must decide if she can yield control to a man who holds her secrets in the dark and her real life in his hands.