Story Behind The Book
I wrote The Secrets He Kept after reading 50 Shades of Grey. I read in that book, and others, that one of the core tenets of the lifestyle is consent - everything is done with consent of both people. And I started thinking: what if someone wanted to get into that without consent? What if they wanted to make their partner unable to consent, or put them in a position where their consent would be forced? The idea snowballed from there.