Absolute Power
A blackmailed cop. A brutalized intern. A dark-web empire built on filmed ruin. After Jimmy and Captain Ryland push them past the point of no return, Mark Ryland and Mateo stop being victims—and start becoming weapons.
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A blackmailed cop. A brutalized intern. A dark-web empire built on filmed ruin. After Jimmy and Captain Ryland push them past the point of no return, Mark Ryland and Mateo stop being victims—and start becoming weapons.
A blackmailed golden-boy cop. A corrupt campaign built on torture and dark-web profit. An idealistic intern who should have stayed far away. As Mark Ryland sinks deeper under Jimmy’s leash, desire, violence, and power collide—and the next young man to be stolen is the one he can’t stop wanting.
When a desperate runaway trades his freedom for a place to crash in a gritty coastal garage, he discovers his new boss doesn’t just fix engines—he builds perfect, broken toys. Mechanic’s Boy is a dark, extreme MM BDSM tale of total submission and public degradation.
In a city of rain and ruin, innocence is just cargo. When a hardboiled PI takes a case to find a Senator’s son, he’s pulled into a world of industrial bondage and forced submission. Jack Corrigan came to save a victim, but he stayed for the ropes. A gritty noir tale of heavy restraints, dark desires, and a detective who finds his place among the wolves.
Twenty-three-year-old Alex is drowning in debt when a $75 furniture assembly gig leads him to Marcus’s door. But the “custom bench” isn’t for sitting—it’s for a high-stakes porn shoot. For the right price, Alex is pushed past his limits, traded for cash, and filmed in a brutal display of dominance. How much is his dignity worth when the camera starts rolling?
Ryan is the campus Alpha who uses bottoms and throws them away. But a lucrative porn offer turns out to be a trap set by his victims. Bound, drugged, and helpless under the studio lights, Ryan faces a brutal reckoning. His former flings aren’t there to submit—they’re there to dominate. Tonight, the predator becomes the prey in a filmed gangbang finale where the Alpha doesn’t just fall—he shatters.
Ben thought his athletic build would land him a modeling gig. Instead, it landed him in a nightmare. Shackled to a medieval frame with a camera tracking his every tremble, Ben is no longer a student—he is a subject. A dark, high-heat MM romance about surrender, endurance, and the terrifying intimacy of the lens.
Zack is a campus king who takes what he wants. But when he’s caught illegally copying porn movies from the local video store, he’s blackmailed into a “private audition” where the tables turn. He expects sex; he gets torture. Locked in a soundproof garage with a silent executioner, the arrogant jock is stripped, whipped, and broken on film. He isn’t the star of this movie—he’s just the prop.
Backpacking through the Amazon, Tarin is abducted by ruthless traffickers and stripped of his freedom. Under the scarred leader’s command, he faces a brutal initiation involving heavy restraint, vibration, and forced service. As pain turns to unwanted pleasure, Tarin learns that to survive the jungle, he must submit completely before he is sold to a buyer in Rio.
Stranded in the Nevada desert, 18-year-old Johnny thinks Rocky is his savior. Instead, the rugged biker takes him to a remote compound where gratitude turns to terror. Chained, edged, and used by a ruthless gang, Johnny discovers that his darkest submissive fantasies are real—and there is no safe word in the sand.
Desperate for cash, straight surfer Seth agrees to a “gay for pay” gig set up by his porn star twin, Caleb. But the gig is a noncon trap. Abducted and filmed, Seth is chained, flogged, and his balls stretched. He’s forced to submit to a brutal gangbang... starting with his own brother.
A corrupt, cocky cop. A twisted video blackmail ring. An innocent victim. When Detective Mark Ryland abuses his power to roleplay a dark, noncon fantasy, he doesn’t realize he’s just become the star of the next illicit tape.
Broke and trapped, Carson signed up to be a cage dancer for $1,000. Instead of a stage, he finds a stone altar, cameras, and a depraved cult ready to use his body in a forbidden Hell Ritual. Bound and violated by a manmade demon of surgically-altered perfection, Carson is forced into uncontrollably agonizing ecstasy. The dark ritual leaves him branded and with a terrifying craving to submit again.
Cocky, straight ex-jock Jace thinks he’s meeting a hot girl for a Halloween hookup at a haunted corn maze. Instead, he’s ambushed by three men he brutally bullied in high school. They’re back for a different kind of “high school reunion.” Jace’s night of arrogance becomes a dark descent into brutal bondage, humiliation, and a sexually degrading revenge that will break him completely.
You wanted “extreme thrills,” so you dressed as a slutty devil for the “Carnal Frights” haunted house. But the “adults only” attraction wasn’t a game. It was a trap. Now, you’re chained in a cold warehouse, a helpless plaything for a captor who collects victims. What begins as a terrifying abduction soon becomes your dark descent into forced submission, psychological horror, and agonizing bliss.
Ranch hand Jeremy thinks the barn is the perfect place to secretly sell his body. He’s wrong. The owner, Samson, has been watching and filming. Now, the punishment begins. Through brutal humiliation and torture, Samson will break the boy, collar him, and re-purpose him for a single use: to be his master’s exclusive property.
One broken bracket. Two dominant handymen. For a quiet nerd like Lee, a trip to the local hardware store turns into a brutal education in submission he never knew he craved. He thought he knew his limits, but Marco and Wyatt are ready to break them all.
A jaded Dom, bored with easy conquests, finds an authentic submissive in a powerful young surfer. Their connection is immediate and intense, but fear drives them apart. Through a series of extreme, remote-controlled punishments and public dares, their digital leash tightens. But to truly claim his boy, he’ll have to return and prove that ownership is more than just a fantasy.
Powerful jock Ryan has a dark secret: a cyclical craving to be brutally dominated. To save their relationship, his boyfriend Kyle offers a shocking solution—hire a professional to give Ryan the purge he needs, and film it for profit. Their descent into a remote BDSM production studio becomes a terrifying game of control where the only thing that matters is the final shot.
Forty-year-old Sean’s crush on the straight boy next door turns into a dark obsession when he discovers Joey’s secret life as a brutal porn stud. Sean pays to be tied up and watch his fantasies unfold, but the roleplay spirals into a terrifying reality. When the sweet boy reveals the monster within, Sean learns the brutal price of getting everything he ever wanted.
Brad is the king of Northwood High, and shy, nerdy Tim is his favorite target. When the two 18-year-old seniors land in after-school detention under the watchful eye of Vice Principal Stratton, they’re taught a twisted lesson in submission and desire. In Room 112, the lines between bully and victim blur as an electric charge is born. Is it damnation or delight?
Cocky troublemaker Daniel thinks his 18th birthday means freedom. But the Disciplinary Headmaster has other plans: a brutal education in pain and submission. Strapped down and exposed, Daniel will be taught his lessons with whips, cruel steel clamps, and the Headmaster’s own brand of invasive, intimate correction.
A lonely student’s hookup turns into a nightmare of captivity. Chained in a junkyard, he’s forced to become the surrogate for his silent captor’s dead lover. This dark, explicit novella explores noncon, psychological torment, and the brutal lines between grief and obsession as a victim is broken down and remade in the image of a ghost.
When three arrogant frat boys trespass in his forest, a sadistic park ranger decides to add them to his private collection. One by one, they are hunted, captured, and restrained in his remote cabin. Here, they will be bound, gagged, and broken, their bodies used to fulfill the ranger’s darkest fantasies and their own secret, shameful desires.
Finn is the perfect Peter Pan—talented, arrogant, and beautiful. But his director and castmates think his performance lacks truth. In a series of private, after-hours “rehearsals,” they decide to teach him the real meaning of fear and submission. On a dark stage, the boy hero will be bound, tormented, and shared by his pirates, discovering a dark desire he never knew he had.
To save the camp, I had to make a deal with the straight jock I was crushing on. I made him kneel, put a collar on his neck, and turned him into the star of my secret show. It was supposed to be about getting even. I never expected to fall for him. And neither of us expected the camp’s owner to find our tapes... and decide to direct the punishment himself.
Eighteen-year-old hustler Carter thinks he’s in control until he’s drugged and abducted by a sadistic trucker. Chained and collared in a steel prison, he’s broken and sold for public use at a desolate truck stop. When a powerful, handsome stranger steps out of the darkness, Carter doesn’t know if he’s being saved or sold to a new, more dangerous master.
A bored and horny college jock answers an anonymous online ad for a night of total submission. He thinks he wants a fantasy, but the brutal reality of being blindfolded, bound, and broken by two older strangers might just be the one thing he can’t live without.
Prideful swimmer Timothy is targeted by the campus janitor and dragged into a filthy world of pain and submission. Chained and exposed in a maintenance room, he is brutally used by two men in a relentless noncon assault designed to break him, body and soul, and force him to confront the budding pain slut within.
Strapped down and sold. For a desperate young man, a job as a haunted house actor becomes a nightmare when the doors lock and the wealthy patrons come out to play. He’s no longer a performer; he’s an interactive exhibit, put on display to be tortured and used in the most degrading ways imaginable. But in the House of Horrors, the deepest pain brings the most forbidden pleasure.
To save their town’s Fourth of July show, the gay men of the Historical Society propose a display of colonial punishment. But when the town’s golden boy lands at the whipping post facing the man he wronged, their after-hours “reenactment” becomes a night where revenge ignites a brutal, shared passion, and self-acceptance is found only through a punishing, liberating surrender.
Leo’s arrogance earned him a one-way trip to a punishment shed. A brutal 10,000-word tale of kidnapping, forced submission, and filmed revenge where the city boy becomes the hick’s toy.
A simple hustler’s job turns into a waking nightmare when one client becomes four, then ten. In a decadent penthouse, Jinx becomes the collared, drugged, and filmed star of a brutal gangbang—an ordeal designed by his new masters to break him completely for a paying audience of strangers. This is an explicit story of forced submission and total degradation.