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⚠️ WARNING ⚠️
This book explores disturbing psychological themes including:
• Obsession, stalking, and harassment
• Untreated mental illness
• Extreme hypersexuality
• False accusations of sexual assault
• Age-gap fixation and pedophilic fantasies/ideation from a character (not the author)
• Self-harm and masochistic ideation
These subjects are presented not as glorification, romanticisation, or “dark romance,” but as horror. The story is intended to examine the devastating impact of untreated trauma and hypersexuality, and the way they can twist affection into obsession, fantasy into delusion, and attraction into something harmful and terrifying.
The character of Paige Kirkwood is portrayed as deeply unwell: obsessive, hypersexual, and self-destructive. Her perspective is not reliable, and her fantasies should not be read as truth. While Paige convinces herself that she is in a romantic, even sexual connection with Barry Whaitiri, this is entirely her delusion. Barry is the victim; an innocent man whose life is invaded, terrorised, and warped by Paige’s fixation.
Paige’s hypersexuality causes her to fetishise victimhood, to eroticise her own suffering, and to romanticise abuse scenarios that never happen.
Hypersexuality is often misunderstood and even glorified in media. In truth, it can be profoundly destructive: distorting perception, driving obsessive thought patterns, and pushing individuals into harmful fantasies about others. This book explores those darker, neglected dimensions through Paige’s character.
It is important to emphasise: THIS STORY DOES NOT DEMONISE HYPERSEXUALITY.
I live with hypersexuality myself, and I know it is not a moral failing or an evil trait. It can be lonely, confusing, and deeply painful; especially when neglected or stigmatised. My goal in writing this story is to show the darker psychological consequences of isolation, misunderstanding, and self-destruction that can arise from untreated symptoms, not to villainise those who experience them.
Hypersexuality is complex and often misrepresented. It deserves compassion and understanding, not judgment.
Readers should approach this story with caution. It is meant to disturb, unsettle, and highlight the damage caused when trauma and mental illness go untreated; not to titillate or glamorise.
If you are sensitive to these subjects, please take care and do not risk your mental health reading this story.