Gia Vassilli likes her men the way she drinks her coffee—steamy hot and dark as fuck.

She views love as a cage and enjoys sex when it's completely under her control. With her dance future mapped out and no intentions of derailing it, men are temporary distractions.

Relationships are a hard limit.

Normally, Gia can spot a red flag from a mile away. But one dangerously perceptive hookup has her breaking her own rules. As a string of mysterious spam calls distracts her, a kinky professor and an anonymous man read her a little too well, throwing her carefully laid plans off balance.

Fantasies she kept tucked inside the pages of her smutty romance books threaten to cross over into her real life.

And Gia chooses to take her biggest risk.

Diving into the world of kink, she follows her curiosity toward submission and uncovers new facets of her sexuality. Surrender might be exactly what she needs.

A path to her darkest desires.

But as men set their sights on possessing her, Gia learns that giving someone control and having her choices taken away are two very different things, and she refuses to be treated like a toy. No one owns her.

And she won't be anyone's good girl unless it’s on her terms.

Hear Me Out: Take One is a dark stalker romance novella and the first Mosaic Falls Side Quest. It is the beginning of Gia’s larger story, a journey of self-discovery through kink, and introduces future exploration of non-monogamy in an unconventional MF romantic pairing.