Sterne: Valerie
Some encounters are inevitable. Others are irreversible.
In 2024, flight attendant Valerie Mitchell meets Julian Sterne on a routine flight — a lingering gaze that begins an irreversible descent into rituals of service and surrender.
Valerie explores vulnerability colliding with control — not a traditional romance, but a psychologically charged story of possession, devotion, and the cost of wanting to be claimed.
Releasing June 10, 2026
Flight attendant Valerie Mitchell meets Julian Sterne on a routine flight — a quiet exchange, a lingering gaze, a pull neither names. She wears a practiced smile, measured distance, the armor of competence required by the job.
It’s only a mask.
What begins as a brief collision becomes a deliberate descent — into his cliffside home above the sea, into rituals of service and surrender, into a dynamic where control is offered, not taken, and every boundary crossed is her choice.
Julian Sterne carries silence like discipline. Forty-seven, precise, shaped by unspoken loss, he offers structure as devotion. Valerie, twenty-seven and fiercely independent, is drawn into alignment — shaped by commands that feel like recognition. As days stretch on, lines blur. Pleasure becomes proof. Obedience becomes clarity. Surrender becomes the only way to be fully seen.
Yet beneath the ritual, questions remain: a necklace resembling his past, a grief left unnamed, and the growing certainty that what Julian offers may not be salvation — but irreversible reshaping.
Valerie is a psychologically charged novel about power, possession, and chosen devotion — and the cost of wanting to be claimed.
Valerie begins in 2024, at a moment in Julian Sterne’s life when control has become both discipline and defense. He is precise, contained, and shaped by loss he does not name. When Valerie Mitchell enters his orbit, the encounter is quiet and unplanned — a collision neither of them fully understands at first.
Valerie is not a traditional romance. It follows the slow convergence of desire and vulnerability, as two adults move toward one another through ritual, restraint, and choice. What emerges is not rescue or surrender, but alignment — a dynamic where power is offered rather than taken, and intimacy carries consequence.
All intimacy depicted is consensual, yet psychologically charged. Control functions as structure, obedience as clarity, and devotion as recognition. Beneath the ritual, questions remain: what is being healed, what is being reshaped, and what may be lost in the process.
This is not the end of their story.
It is the moment before everything shifts.
Intended for mature readers. Contains explicit sexual content.