With a wedge at last driven between Mat and Dougie Carmichael, courtesy of Nikolai Petrovic�s expert manipulations, the brothers must each accept their new path forward: Dougie, a perfect slave, sweet and obedient and loving. Mat, a tightly reined dog, snarling and snapping but never allowed to bite.

Unfortunately, no transformation, however well planned, is without its growing pains. Mat�s leash is so tight it�s choking him. Dougie is tormented by a little voice inside his head�a fragment of his former self�that he cannot silence.

And Nikolai�s most difficult tests for the brothers are still to come.

The critical question isn�t whether they can pass those tests, but whether they even want to. Without each other to lean on and live for, a bleak future has become bleaker still. But Nikolai�s too good to let his slaves slip through his fingers�by death or by despair.

A noose, a nighttime sky, a shared lover, an unexpected friend. A foreboding forest cabin. A lavish party with all the debauchery Nikolai�s clientele could want. It�s all coming in season 3 of the Flesh Cartel.

Reader discretion advised. This title contains the following sensitive themes: Drug use, dubious consent, non-consent, explicit violence, heavy kink.