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The Associate: Dark, Age-gap, BDSM-charged MM Romance
“Some men command obedience. He taught me to crave it.”
Fresh out of law school and desperate to bury the trauma that nearly broke him, Samuel’s only goal is keep his head down and survive. But that becomes impossible when he’s placed under Gael Wise, the firm’s most feared senior partner whose reputation alone is enough to break seasoned attorneys.
Gael picks up on Samuel’s tells instantly. The too-fast apologies. The rigid posture. The instinctive compliance no one else has ever questioned. And soon, what should have been a professional hierarchy shifts into a volatile, magnetic pull that exposes every defense Samuel has left.
What starts as curiosity becomes something darker.
Desire turns razor-sharp.
And Gael’s interest threatens to pull Samuel into a world he isn’t sure he can survive—or walk away from.
With old wounds rising fast and lines blurring beyond recognition, both men must face a truth neither
Some obsessions don’t stay hidden… and some connections can break you long before they save you.
A dark, age-gap, BDSM-charged MM romance — The Associate is the first book in The Crimson Knot series.
Fresh out of law school and desperate to bury the trauma that nearly broke him, Samuel’s only goal is keep his head down and survive. But that becomes impossible when he’s placed under Gael Wise, the firm’s most feared senior partner whose reputation alone is enough to break seasoned attorneys.
Gael picks up on Samuel’s tells instantly. The too-fast apologies. The rigid posture. The instinctive compliance no one else has ever questioned. And soon, what should have been a professional hierarchy shifts into a volatile, magnetic pull that exposes every defense Samuel has left.
What starts as curiosity becomes something darker.
Desire turns razor-sharp.
And Gael’s interest threatens to pull Samuel into a world he isn’t sure he can survive—or walk away from.
With old wounds rising fast and lines blurring beyond recognition, both men must face a truth neither
Some obsessions don’t stay hidden… and some connections can break you long before they save you.
A dark, age-gap, BDSM-charged MM romance — The Associate is the first book in The Crimson Knot series.
447 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 3, 2026
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About the author
Anna T. Pope
230 books50 followersAnna T. Pope (Tijana Popov) was born in 1993. to a middle-class family.
She lives in a small town in the Republic of Serbia; a tiny little state located in Southeast Europe. Anna is a mother of two little boys, with a big love of literature and even bigger dreams of becoming a well-known author.
She started writing during her adolescent years but the first time she allowed anyone to read her work was in 2016 when she joined the Wattpad community and published her first story.
Her main genre is general romance, although she also dabbles in the fantasy genre.
She lives in a small town in the Republic of Serbia; a tiny little state located in Southeast Europe. Anna is a mother of two little boys, with a big love of literature and even bigger dreams of becoming a well-known author.
She started writing during her adolescent years but the first time she allowed anyone to read her work was in 2016 when she joined the Wattpad community and published her first story.
Her main genre is general romance, although she also dabbles in the fantasy genre.
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