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.