This wickedly suggestive and thoroughly sexy novel is a frothy foray of desire that offers a long branch into the subconscious mind of want. Not for the faint of heart, A Tortured Soul: The Unauthorized Biography of Nicholas Anderson introduces the lure of bondage in order to overcome a lifetime of abuse and submissiveness. New erotica author C. J. Cassidy plays both sides of the fence as he doses his characters with pain and heartache before igniting their passions and pleasures. Successful and business savvy Katherine Stark silently suffers an abusive relationship with Johnny Precious, an up-and-coming rapper until an older colleague, Nicholas Anderson, suffuses her imagination and later the landscape of her body with a rare and empowering passion. Through obedience and discipline, Katherine and Nicholas engage in a secret world where everything naughty is possible and no arousing deed will go unpunished, literally and consensually speaking, of course.