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Clare Wren has built a life that doesn't bend. CEO. Control freak. Rules for everything, including desire. Nothing gets close enough to bruise her.Maya Stone has spent years becoming smaller to survive. When her boyfriend's threats escalate, the safest place she has, work, becomes another place he can reach her. Clare sees the pattern and offers structure. A locked door. A plan. A way out.Except Maya doesn't just respond to Clare's authority. She steadies under it. And Clare finds herself wanting something far more dangerous: to keep Maya.In a world of boardrooms, power plays, and private rules, In Control is a dark, high-heat sapphic romance about coercion, survival, and the terrifying intimacy of being truly seen, and choosing, finally, to love. A Groome is a UK-based sapphic romance author who loves the ocean, photography, and stories that feel like a deep breath. Her work centres tenderness and emotional honesty-healing, chosen family, and the courage it takes to let someone in. She lives with her wife and writes while navigating chronic illness, paying attention to small mercies: salt air, soft light, nature, a cup of tea and the steady comfort of the tide. Having worked in conservation, she holds a lifelong awe for marine life.She hopes you find a little of the joy she does while writing these characters-and that their strength, resilience, and love stay with you long after the final page. If their journey brings you comfort, courage, or even just a softer place to land for a while, then the story has done what she most wanted.