My husband demanded an open marriage. Now he's angry that I'm dating a pack of hot guys, like somehow the rules are supposed to be different for me? I can't divorce him. We're business partners in St. Louis' hottest new Michelin star restaurant, and the place is mortgaged to the hilt. Still, the unfairness of it all is grinding me down day by day. The only bright spot is the new men I've met. Together, Zalen, Emiel, Byron, and Luca run the Hope Project, a center for at-risk youth in that middle of East St. Louis' gangland. I feel more at home with them than I ever did in my beta-style marriage… at least until their dangerous pasts start to creep into my present-day life, threatening the one thing I've worked so hard to achieve—my success as the chef-owner of the Elderflower Inn. With everything falling apart, can a misfit pack of broken former gang members somehow help me stitch my life back together? * * * Knot Playing Book One is the first half of an alphomic non-shifter duology, originally published on Kindle Vella. It contains M/F and M/M.