City Bound

A dystopian erotic tale of survival, secrets, and the price of desire.Outside the walls of Valgard City, survival is a brutal game—and Seth Camden is losing.Eighteen and desperate, Seth clings to two truths: he’ll never escape the wasteland beyond the city’s walls, and he’ll never admit his hunger for his best friend, Matteo. After failing the military exam that was his only shot at a future, Seth lies to his mother—and to himself—while scraping by in a gang-ruled hellscape where desire is as dangerous as starvation.But when rumors surface of a shadowy recruiter who trades flesh for passage into Valgard, Seth faces an impossible choice: sell his body to strangers in the city’s glittering underbelly, or watch his mother wither in the ruins. With Matteo’s protection slipping away and violence closing in, Seth must navigate a world where every touch is transactional—even the ones that burn with the heat of something real.