Tessa Virelle crafts dark mafia worlds from the echoes of a decade spent in shadows.<br>Houses of control, bids that bound, hearts like Alexei's that fractured everything...<br>When she's not writing, her time is a fine balance between drinking enough caffeine to take down a horse and dangling from helicopters as part of a medical trauma response team.<br>Vulnerability as victory.<br>No safewords needed.<br>Lived, not imagined.
