Belongs to the Room

Kate is on the partner track at a Los Angeles law firm. She’s sharp, controlled and never wrong, and she’s exhausted by it. So when a dinner with their oldest friends turns into a game of Trivial Pursuit with new stakes, and Kate gets a question about Napoleon wrong, something in her tips over.

Wrong answers mean forfeits. Forfeits mean the black silk dress comes off. And her husband Ben, the gentle architect who has never said a crude word in bed, leans close and tells her to let them see.

There are three couples, six friends who thought they knew each other. Loud, charming Marcus is married to Sasha, a gallery owner who has never stopped performing, until she discovers how much she enjoys being cruel. Elena controls every room she walks into; her husband Tom is a quiet, watchful doctor. And Ben has been noticing things for six years and saying nothing.

One game becomes a season. Each wife gets her own night, run by rules she has written herself. But between the women there are old jealousies, unspoken grudges and a quiet competition to go further than the one before. When Kate’s turn finally comes, at a house on a Malibu headland on a warm Santa Ana night, her brief contains a single word: Everything.

Belongs to the Room is a story of free use, wife-sharing and consensual surrender among friends. It’s also about marriage, friendship and the terrifying freedom of letting go.

Contains explicit sex between consenting adults, including group sex, bondage, humiliation, impact play and orgasm denial. For readers 18+.