In 1994, Gary, a lonely middle-aged illustrator, buys an isolated, two-story cabin in the Northern California woods, that turns out to be a former S/M dungeon. When a lost stranger knocks upon Gary's door, they begin a friends-with-benefits relationship that quickly escalates in its sexual experimentation and brutality. Was she a former client and regular of the dungeon?
How far will they push their limits? When does spice become danger?
Can any of this satisfy Gary's feeling of personal isolation?
WARNING: It Locks from the Outside is a dark BDSM literary novella with hard kink and solid female characters. It depicts scenes of graphic rough sex, consensual bondage and breast torture, fetishism, and a fetish-related, non-happy ending. It is largely a meditation on male loneliness and female agency. IT DOES NOT have sex on every page. It is not a romance and is intended for adults only. Reader discretion advised.