Romance: Dark High-Spice Enemies-to-Lovers - Shadows of Deception

Shadows of Deception: In the game of spies, surrender is the ultimate betrayal.

Story Dossier + Outline

Premise:

A jaded CIA operative must partner with her former lover turned double agent—the man whose defection shattered her world—to thwart a global conspiracy, but their rekindled fire threatens to expose secrets that could topple empires.

✨ Genre: Dark High-Spice Enemies-to-Lovers Romance

✨ Tropes/Themes: Opposing Loyalties, Shared Traumatic Past, Reluctant Physical Truce, Emotional Walls Cracking, Love That Ends the War, BDSM Control Games, Espionage Thrills, Moral Ambiguity

✨ POV & Structure: 1st person past tense dual POV, 4-Act structure with romantic progression layered over intensifying espionage missions.

✨ Vibe: A shadowy, high-stakes thriller laced with psychological darkness and raw sensuality, where trust is a luxury and betrayal is foreplay. The vibe is intensely angsty with morally grey characters engaging in vulgar, explicit BDSM erotica that blurs pain and pleasure. Bloody interrogations and covert ops heighten the edge, creating a claustrophobic atmosphere of constant suspicion.

✨ Book Size: Novel (60,000-100,000 words)

✨ Chapter Count: 42 Chapters

✨ Word Count: target 1800-2200 per chapter

✨ Heat Level: Erotica (10-15+ high-heat very explicit vulgar sex scenes)

What you get:

✅ Complete Premise with core concepts and Narrative Physics Architecture

✅ Complete Story Dossier — including detailed characters, relationship arcs, locations and objects, world rules and histories, multiple subplots, and market researched genre and style guides.

✅ A detailed 42 chapter outline.