ISBN: 9798990358539 - pyrrhic victoria (censored edition): the cost of victory in loves war (lust, love, & liberation collection, band 1) (2 Ergebnisse)

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Victoria Robbins believed she had rebuilt her life-until Sante Sabatino, the lover who vanished without explanation, returns. His reappearance does not feel like triumph, but relief. Grateful rather than guarded, Victoria slips back into his orbit, mistaking presence for repair and desire for safety.A successful television executive accustomed to endurance and discipline, Victoria enters the relationship willingly but without leverage. What begins as chosen submission intensifies quickly, and she is surprised by how easily her boundaries fall-one by one-as devotion, the need to please, and the pursuit of connection begin to blur into something more consuming than she expected.Written as a psychologically driven urban novel, Pyrrhic Victoria examines how unresolved trauma and emotional invalidation hollow out agency, leaving even capable, accomplished people vulnerable to relationships that feel stabilizing while quietly dismantling them. Sexuality is implied throughout and treated as behavior under examination, with adult themes and language that some readers may find objectionable, and with questions of identity and self-understanding that complicate desire beyond conventional expectations.As the relationship deepens, Victoria's sense of self erodes in ways that both shock and bind her, until the pursuit of love begins to resemble something else entirely. Rather than offering comfort or moral simplicity, Pyrrhic Victoria confronts the cost of believing that endurance can earn devotion.How much should one be willing to sacrifice in the pursuit of love-or in the war known as love.…