A Helping Hand

Julie Calloway is forty-one, married for nineteen years, and living the comfortable suburban life in Haddonfield, New Jersey. She drives an SUV, makes dinner every night, and knows all the other moms at book club. Her days are predictable. Safe. Exactly what she signed up for when she left her copywriting career to raise her kids.

Then her daughter Katie brings home a new friend.

Rachel Yoo is eighteen, shy, and sweet in a way that makes Julie want to protect her. She wears oversized hoodies, says thank you too much, and has the kind of loneliness that comes from being different in ways she can't explain. Julie takes her in without hesitation. Feeds her. Gives her a safe place to be herself.

What Julie doesn't know is that Rachel has a secret. A medical condition so rare there are only a handful of documented cases. Rachel is intersex, a futanari, fully functional on both sides, and her body produces pheromones that make teenage girls lose control around her when she's aroused.

When Katie starts showing the effects, when Julie realizes her daughter is being pulled toward something she can't resist, Julie makes a choice. She'll handle it herself. She'll take care of Rachel's needs so Katie doesn't have to. It's just biology. Just a mother protecting her child. It doesn't mean anything.

Except it starts to mean something.

What begins as clinical necessity becomes something Julie can't name. Rachel's gratitude turns to devotion. Julie's duty turns to hunger. And the hands that were supposed to provide relief start reaching for more than either of them planned.

A tender, explicit, erotica about desire, sacrifice, and what happens when a woman discovers herself by giving everything to someone she was never supposed to want.