Bound

Red handle. Right side. Every time.

Marissa Kettering taught restraint safety for a living. Comfort is not consent, she told the room. Experienced people get careless because they stop checking. Keep the safety shears visible, within reach, in the same place every time.

By midnight, she was dead in the carriage house of a Finger Lakes estate. She was bound to a chair, and the scene was staged to look like a game gone wrong.

The police see an easy story: swingers, restraints, jealousy, a dead wife. Cass Ferrier sees the shears lying on the wrong side.

Detective Lena Kowalski gives Cass one instruction: do not investigate. But Marissa's estranged husband swears she was alive when he walked out. A silver-haired stranger watched her all evening with something colder than curiosity. And half the guests at the Morrows' party are hiding something about where they were that night.

With her husband Wes and their lover Vera at her side, Cass follows the one detail the killer got wrong.

Sizzling, twisty, and unapologetically adult, Bound is Book Seven of The Lifestyle Mysteries.