Six Black is in over his head. And he's not sure he wants to come up for air. After a sheltered upbringing with an oppressive family, he's not ready for adult life. He's not ready for the world outside. And he's definitely not ready for the clandestine nightclub known only as Blossom & Bite—or the strange, scarred man he meets there. Senzou Ueda. When Blossom & Bite specializes in matching displaced young men with wealthy older "patrons," it's not hard to guess what Senzou wants when he invites Six into his home. Yet there's more to this arrangement than Senzou would ever tell, and while each night Six sleeps alone...he finds himself falling more and more beneath this mysterious, black-eyed behemoth's quiet spell. Especially when he discovers... Senzou Ueda is the architect of Six's darkest desires. Every hunger. Every longing. Every breathless, twisted curiosity that lives inside Six was born of Senzou's macabrely erotic art, and the more he learns of the man, the fantasy, the story behind battle scars and delicate tattoos... ...the more Six craves. Cut free from his tethers, Six is awakening from a fragile, frightened boy into a creature of insatiable passions—and neither he nor Senzou can resist the temptation of illicit desires. In each other, they find the answer to unspoken, forbidden needs. In each other, they find kindred spirits. In each other...they find something broken. Something beautiful. But the love building between them has a time limit, and it's counting down—to the day when Six learns the truth. The real reason Senzou came for him. The hidden hand pulling both their strings... ...and the secret of the black tattoo.