She married the right man, the safe man, the man who made her sign away her womb along with her name. But nobody warned her what happens when a woman is told she cannot have something her body was made for.
He was supposed to be nothing. A contractor fixing the guest house, sweat on his shoulders, rough hands that did not ask permission. The first time he caught her watching, she did not look away. The first time he touched her, she did not pretend to mistake his meaning. He wanted to put a baby in her. She wanted to let him.
Now she finds reasons to be alone. Now she opens her legs for a man who fills her completely, who spills inside her again and again while she whispers yes yes yes where her husband sleeps two floors above. The belly she was forbidden to grow begins to round. The marriage she was told to be grateful for becomes the walls of a prison she no longer wants to escape from - she wants to burn it down.
Her husband suspects. Her lover demands more. And she is caught between the life she was given and the craving that owns her completely: to be seeded, to swell, to carry the proof of her rebellion where everyone can see.
This full-length novel follows one woman's surrender to the breeding she was denied, the infidelity she cannot stop, and the dangerous love that grows from both.
