When Alexandra's sister calls her fiancé in the middle of the night frantically in need of a shibari master, Alexandra learns yet another secret about Gabe and falls headfirst into his kinky past. Not realizing the emotional turmoil she is about to propel herself into, Alexandra insists Gabe be Jessica's rigger since he learned shibari from Jessica's husband and had bound Jessica in the past. A flight to Cape Hatteras begins Alexandra and Gabe's adventures with shibari and dominance and further strains the ménage à quatre.
Gabe isn't thrilled with Alexandra's plan, knowing his and Jessica's shared secrets go farther back than anyone realizes. Knowing it's about to get real, Gabe brings in a back-up rope master, Francisco Emanuel, to top Jessica because with Alexandra's high-risk pregnancy and bipolar disorder leaving her teetering closer and closer to the abyss, he fears tying Jessica in his rope may be the last straw.
Alexandra has her own ideas, demanding Gabe not only use the opportunity to share his love of shibari with her but demands he dominate her as well. Will the ménage dynamic implode when secret after secret are revealed? Or is the ménage more tightly bound than the four realize?