Playing Rough — Blair Babylon

Be careful whom you submit to.
Lizzy is trapped. Her new boyfriend Mannix Bonfils and his business partner Theo Valencia have bought The Devilhouse, and her job is gone. Her estranged parents keep calling, wanting her to quit college to coach Olympic-level gymnastics, the life she escaped at sixteen. Mannix demands that she give up more and more control, and he becomes rougher, more frightening, with her. Her estranged parents keep calling, wanting her to quit college to coach Olympic-level gymnastics, the life she escaped at sixteen. Sports reporters stalk her college dorm, looking for the feel-good homecoming story she dreads. Mannix's sexual power games grow more disturbing every day, and someone tries to shoot them at The Devilhouse, narrowly missing Lizzy. Even though she wants to stay with Mannix, to grow stronger, to be loved, and to fulfill her commitment, everyone is telling her to get out, but they all seem to want something from her. When Theo offers to help her leave, should she stay with Mannix or go back to the prescribed life she thought she had escaped?