Tears of Tess

Tess Snow is a student with one semester left before a career in property development. She has a loving boyfriend, Brax, and a future that looks wide open. For their two year anniversary, Brax takes her on a surprise trip to Mexico, a week of beaches, cocktails and time together.

The holiday ends when Tess is kidnapped and drugged. She is taken into a dark, frightening world, alone and cut off from anyone who could help her. She is sold, and the book follows what that does to her and to the person who becomes her owner.

This is a New Adult dark contemporary romance. It is not suitable for readers sensitive to hard subjects, so expect distressing material. Tess changes from a terrified girl into someone who fights back, and the book traces how her will hardens out of necessity.

Two questions drive the story: whether Brax can find her before she is broken, and whether her new owner will alter her life for good. Love turns up in an unlikely place, and forgiveness may not be enough. It reads as an intense, emotionally heavy romance.