Paradise below
Upper-deck aristocrat Nathaniel and his best friend Eric are twenty, born on the ship, and chemically sedated into comfortable numbness, until they hear one word through a vent: below. What they find in the maintenance tunnels and lower decks is warmth, reciprocity, class resentment, BDSM power inversion, and the slow, alarming discovery that the most alive they have ever felt might have been engineered that way. A raunchy erotic comedy about desire, solidarity, and the trouble with pre-designed transgression.
Chapters
- Chapter 1: Chapter 1 - The Smooth
- Chapter 2: Chapter 2 - The Plan
- Chapter 3: Chapter 3 - Below the Smooth
- Chapter 4: Chapter 4 - Hydroponics
- Chapter 5: Chapter 5 - Her Apartment
- Chapter 6: Chapter 6 - Leila
- Chapter 7: Chapter 7 - First Night
- Chapter 8: Chapter 8 - The Code
- Chapter 9: Chapter 9 - Handsy
- Chapter 10: Chapter 10 - The Parts Not in the Schematic
- Chapter 11: Chapter 11 - A Customer
- Chapter 12: Chapter 12 - Not a Given
- Chapter 13: Chapter 13 - The Inspection
- Chapter 14: Chapter 14 - In the Dark
- Chapter 15: Chapter 15 - The Belly
- Chapter 16: Chapter 16 - Now You've Been Here
- Chapter 17: Chapter 17 - Jazmine's Secret
- Chapter 18: Chapter 18 - The Handoff
- Chapter 19: Chapter 19 - James in the Network
- Chapter 20: Chapter 20 - What James Knows
- Chapter 21: Chapter 21 - Warm and Edgeless
- Chapter 22: Chapter 22 - None of His Folders
- Chapter 23: Chapter 23 - The Conversation That Doesn't Happen
- Chapter 24: Chapter 24 - The Room Had Grown
- Chapter 25: Chapter 25 - The Morning After
- Chapter 26: Chapter 26 - Incorporated
- Chapter 27: Chapter 27 - A Door Not on Any Schematic
- Chapter 28: Chapter 28 - The Terms
- Chapter 29: Chapter 29 - She Had Planned Them
- Chapter 30: Chapter 30 - Don't Tell Her I Said That
- Chapter 31: Chapter 31 - What Leila Knows
- Chapter 32: Chapter 32 - Same Thing, With Her
- Chapter 33: Chapter 33 - Leila's Network
- Chapter 34: Chapter 34 - The Plant
- Chapter 35: Chapter 35 - Nobody Above Filed a Report
- Chapter 36: Chapter 36 - Her Quarters
- Chapter 37: Chapter 37 - Thursday
- Chapter 38: Chapter 38 - The Missing
- Chapter 39: Chapter 39 - None of the Six Categories
- Chapter 40: Chapter 40 - I Didn't Hear Anything
- Chapter 41: Chapter 41 - What Anastasia Carries
- Chapter 42: Chapter 42 - Inside the Room
- Chapter 43: Chapter 43 - Nobody Stopped
- Chapter 44: Chapter 44 - What It Costs
- Chapter 45: Chapter 45 - The Upper Deck Problem
- Chapter 46: Chapter 46 - Think About Who Knows Your Route
- Chapter 47: Chapter 47 - Closer
- Chapter 48: Chapter 48 - The Bribe That Fails
- Chapter 49: Chapter 49 - The Jealousy Problem
- Chapter 50: Chapter 50 - Before It Gets Complicated
- Chapter 51: Chapter 51 - Eric Falls
- Chapter 52: Chapter 52 - The Father
- Chapter 53: Chapter 53 - Seiko
- Chapter 54: Chapter 54 - The Dark
- Chapter 55: Chapter 55 - Not Yet
- Chapter 56: Chapter 56 - The Confession
- Chapter 57: Chapter 57 - Anastasia's Truth
- Chapter 58: Chapter 58 - Leila Knew
- Chapter 59: Chapter 59 - The Plan
- Chapter 60: Chapter 60 - The Reckoning
- Chapter 61: Chapter 61 - Below