Secret Obsession
by S. Massery · Independent · 2023
A dark college-hockey romance that engineers attachment by routing forbidden desire through a possessive ex-brother whose fixation reads as both threat and devotion; alternating first-person present narration collapses distance while chapter-ending blackouts and a relentless "you've always been mine" refrain keep the dread-to-craving ratio tilted toward compulsion.
Engineered signals
Six estimated signals for how hard this title works the immersion engine, each scored on the same 0–100 scale so books compare directly. Directional, not exact — see the methodology below.
What this book is tagged
The full tag set, grouped by dimension. Heat & Kink and Content Warnings are the explicit signals — surfaced, not buried in a flat trope list.
Genre & Setting
Structure & POV
Relationship Tropes
Hero Archetypes
Heroine Archetypes
Heat & Kink
Content Warnings
Pairing & Orientation
Location
Estimated. These charts visualize the engineered signals — arc shape, trope weights, and the 0–100 profile are analytical estimates from automated text sampling, directional rather than exact.
Share of page-time spent on buildup and tension rather than payoff. High values mean the book sells the wait, not the moment.
How strongly the narration collapses the gap between reader and protagonist, peaking with first-person, reader-insert voice.
The "book boyfriend" pull: how hard the text works to form a one-sided attachment to a love interest.
Cliffhanger and serial-loop intensity — the compulsion to start the next chapter or installment.
How steeply intensity ramps across the arc. A steep slope is the tolerance signal: each payoff has to outdo the last.
Query the text itself
Beyond the scores: select a pre-determined query to read real keyword-in-context excerpts from the book’s text, located across its arc. Counts are first-pass lexical-pattern matches across the full text, refined as the analysis matures.
Excerpts are short keyword-in-context fragments from Secret Obsession by S. Massery (2023), quoted for research and commentary under fair use — a bounded window around each match, not continuous text.
Acts
Anatomy
Dynamics & Kink
Buildup
Mentions of Backside
222 matches · showing 6
| Ch. | Page | Matched fragment |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | … drops down the rest of her, down the tight black shirt that hugs her figure, over her perfect ass in the dark jeans. She’s a dancer, and every inch of her is muscle. When she opens her … |
| 2 | 9 | … are too high, just under my breasts, and I’m flooded with discomfort. He pulls me into him, my ass against his groin. Against his erection. Nope. I force a laugh and twist in his arms, using my … |
| 3 | 10 | … knew about the bet and did nothing to warn me. The one who let me fall on my ass in front of everyone. The one who watches me like he’s the only one who pays attention. “Don’t … |
| 4 | 17 | … Except, as I’m coming out of the building, someone detaches from the shadows and steps toward me. “Hey, asshole,” they call. I glance over my shoulder at them, ignoring the prickle of apprehension that sweeps down my … |
| 9 | 52 | … and snatch it from the counter. I’m not going to miss a class because some girls are being assholes. Now I’ve got a point to prove. I make it to class on time and slip into a … |
| 9 | 53 | … great. Suddenly all my pep talks when Greyson was harassing Violet come back to bite me in the ass. I suck my lip between my teeth, even as she grips my wrist and drags me toward the … |
Where the content lands
Not just how much, but where. Each content category is mapped across the chapter arc — buildup spread thin, explicit acts concentrated at the payoff chapters.
Acts
Anatomy
Dynamics & Kink
Buildup
How explicit is this, really?
A single title means little in isolation. Set against the indexed catalog, the scale of this book's explicit content becomes legible.
More explicit than 80% of the indexed catalog · #31 of 180 · 2.2 scenes / 100 pp
How these metrics are derived
The book is a real published work; the signals below are produced by sampling its text and scoring each on a common 0–100 scale, so titles can be compared on the same axes.
Estimated. Every signal on this page is an analytical estimate from automated text sampling — directional, not an exact measurement — and the arc curves are illustrative shapes, not chapter-by-chapter readings.
- Anticipation Ratio
- Share of page-time spent on buildup and tension rather than payoff. High values mean the book sells the wait, not the moment.
- Explicit Density
- Explicit scenes per 100 pages — how concentrated the payoff is across the length of the book.
- POV Immersion
- How strongly the narration collapses the gap between reader and protagonist, peaking with first-person, reader-insert voice.
- Parasocial Index
- The "book boyfriend" pull: how hard the text works to form a one-sided attachment to a love interest.
- Serialization
- Cliffhanger and serial-loop intensity — the compulsion to start the next chapter or installment.
- Escalation Slope
- How steeply intensity ramps across the arc. A steep slope is the tolerance signal: each payoff has to outdo the last.