Mae, a beauty queen, grew up with a secret no one could see: a hymen too sturdy, her virginity too difficult to conquer, too thick to break. Desire was never gentle with her-it was painful, bloody, and relentless. Men came into her life with promises of love, lust, and survival, and each one chipping away slowly at her virginity.
When tragedy struck and her father died in a fire, Mae was forced into a world she never belonged to. From the spotlight of a beauty queen, she fell into dimly lit clubs and shadowed rooms-working as a waitress, a stripper, becoming a kept woman and even had her own secret escapades. She sold fragments of herself piece by piece, learning how to give everything but no man could take what she protected all her life.
Haunted by the past she swore to bury, Mae finds herself standing before the man she once loved-the man who doesn't know how deep her scars run. Now she must choose between the safety of her lies and the risk of revealing everything. Can love truly exist after so much darkness, or is she destined to remain broken forever?
This novel is a dark, erotic, sensual, and redemptive journey about innocence, survival, and the price of love.