Claudine Benali never intended to become someone else for the night. When her roommate begs her to impersonate a dominatrix persona for one lucrative booking at the legendary Netherlust, the grad student agrees, assuming it will be a straightforward evening of controlled kink with a nervous Spanish diplomat. But from the moment she arrives in borrowed latex and a stranger’s identity, nothing goes according to plan. In the Pressure Chamber—an intimate room where sensation is controlled through impossible membrane technology—Claudine finds herself in the vulnerable position she swore she’d never accept, surrendering to intensity that makes her lose herself in ways that terrify her. When she flees into Netherlust’s corridors seeking safety, she stumbles into something far more dangerous than erotic surrender: a political conspiracy, a powerful faerie, and a scene that transforms her from imposter to witness—and then to something worse.