{"product_id":"reasonable-deception-jay-rashad-9798254642664","title":"Reasonable Deception","description":"Maxwell Alexander-a brilliant but tormented college professor-leads a double life. By day, he lectures on criminal psychology; by night, he indulges an escalating sexual addiction at \u003ci\u003ePandora's\u003c\/i\u003e, an exclusive underground club where power and desire blur into obsession. What begins as anonymous pleasure spirals into psychological warfare when a masked woman calling herself \u003cb\u003eMs. Deception\u003c\/b\u003e enters his world, promising to feed \"his true addiction.\"\u003cbr\u003eAs Max's cravings pull him between fixation and self-disgust, his past resurfaces in the form of \u003cb\u003eLauren\u003c\/b\u003e, the ex-lover who first awakened his taste for dominance and submission. Their volatile history mirrors the new corruption invading his present-anonymous emails, voyeuristic recordings, and messages signed only with the GreekΩ. When one of Max's students turns up dead after a drugged encounter at Pandora's, suspicion closes in, and his carefully separated lives collapse.\u003cbr\u003eEach chapter peels back a layer of deceit: murders staged as sexual rituals, former partners returning as avengers, and twin sisters seeking revenge for a woman Max once destroyed. A cat-and-mouse game unfolds between Max and \"Deception,\" culminating in revelations that his persecutor may be everyone-and no one-he knows. Fires, false identities, and digital hauntings erase the boundaries between victim and predator until Max's own reflection becomes suspect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jay Rashad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798254642664\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Jay Rashad","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48853032567039,"sku":"9798254642664","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reasonable-deception-jay-rashad-9798254642664","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}