As you bind me, I am freed... Finn Adler doesn't have time for romance -His mind is occupied with pirouettes and grand jetes, not boys. He's far too busy running his father's old dance studio and trying to get the role of Siegfried to worry about his social life... or his flat... or health. Of course, his lack of a love life may also have something to do with his cripplingly low self-esteem and the tangled web of anxiety in his mind. Who would want an inexperienced, neurotic ballerina whose method of flirting consists of nervously babbling on about the private anatomy of ducks? Tom Allerton ruins everything he touches, so he's determined to resist the lure of the things he wants. As a 6'6" bartender covered in ink with biceps bigger than most people's thighs, his desire to nourish and protect both people and plants would have been a surprise to most even before he became one of the undead. No, Tom learned he's a monster the hard way and he's not about to risk hurting someone by getting close to them. That's why he doesn't stay around after drinking from his one-night-stands -not even when they have the sweetest blue eyes and the tightest jeans he's ever seen. Imagine their mutual surprise when they meet again and find themselves pushed into an arrangement of Finn as Tom's private dance teacher. The two men have nothing in common, except for one little thing: They both hate themselves. But perhaps together they can fix that. Perhaps when they are bound together, they can learn to be free. A full length standalone, full of D/s, rope-play, and creatures of the night, with a HEA.