At ninety-six years old, Luna Ravencroft has no intention of disappearing quietly.

When the fiercely independent, stiletto-wearing gothic woman arrives at a nursing home, she immediately challenges everything Scarlett thinks she knows about age, trauma, sexuality, faith, and what a woman’s life is supposed to look like.

Through the story of Luna’s past, a hidden life emerges- one shaped by trauma and survival, complicated love, BDSM, unconventional relationships, and the discovery that submission can be an act of choice rather than surrender.

The Girl in the Shadows is an erotic, unconventional story about the scars we hide, the identities we protect, and what can happen when a woman finally stops living according to everyone else’s rules.