About the book: year / Chicago. Our days. Ava Hayes is a young successful architect and career woman who, at first glance, is not at all interested in romance and love. But Ava has a secret. She carefully hides it from everyone, even from the closest people. She can't let anyone know that she's actually a masochist and submissive, with a secret lover whom she calls "my Master" in the bedroom. But everything changes when a terrible tragedy happens in Ava’s life, and now her whole cozy, closed world goes to hell…