After years of struggling with alcoholism and drug abuse, I got clean and put my best foot forward. I became the man worthy of Lacey Parrish's love and made the girl with the sad brown eyes my wife. But I'm not the only one in our marriage with demons. Diagnosed a manic depressive, Lacey struggles daily with her mind, never willing to succumb to the stigma of mental illness. The odds have always been stacked against us, but the stakes have never been this high. Pregnant with our child, Lacey is forced to choose between her mind and the baby we wished for.I can take pain, but I can't take hers.Helpless and at the mercy of all the things that plague us, I turn to my past. It's always our favorite sins that do us in.Leather.Lace.Me.Her.Suffering through hell, hoping love is enough for us to survive one more blackout.*This is part one of the Leather & Lace duet and will conclude in Book Two.*