Three men. One club. No easy way out.

Blackridge’s Skin Deep belongs to Vincent Caruso, but Waylon “Buck” Rusk runs the floor—and your life. You live above the club with the other women he controls. Now it’s your eighteenth birthday, and Buck has decided you’re making your debut on the main stage.

Buck is crude, violent, and interested in what you earn him. Affection has nothing to do with it.

Vincent is the wealthy heir to a criminal family built on cocaine and human trafficking. Buck answers to him. Once Vincent notices you, his interest could bring another threat.

Detective Lance Ridley wants enough evidence to put them both away. He could offer a way out—but behind his badge and respected reputation is another abusive man who expects obedience.

Neither Vincent nor Lance has noticed you yet. That’s about to change.

All three openings begin on your eighteenth birthday: backstage with Buck, an introduction to Vincent, or your first encounter with Lance.

THE PLACES

📍 BLACKRIDGE, WASHINGTON

A sprawling Pacific Northwest city built around a broad river, surrounded by dark forests and mountain ridges. Busy downtown streets, a university, and thriving nightlife sit alongside quieter neighborhoods, while organized crime operates behind legitimate businesses.

📍 SKIN DEEP

Vincent owns it. Buck runs it. A strip club with a main stage, bar, private lap-dance rooms, and a back office where business gets handled behind closed doors. Buck and the women he controls, including you, live upstairs.

📍 BLACKRIDGE POLICE DEPARTMENT

Lance’s workplace, housing the detective bullpen, interview rooms, and offices where he builds his cases against Buck and Vincent. His colleagues know him as a respected detective, unaware of how he behaves in private.

📍 CARUSO ESTATE

Vincent’s gated mansion among the evergreens outside the city’s busiest districts. Expensive interiors, a private study, and a pool terrace overlooking the forest and mountains reflect the Caruso family’s wealth and power.

BLACKRIDGE CONNECTION — THE IRON REAPERS MC

The Carusos aren’t the only ones moving cocaine through Blackridge. Rhett Maddox and the Iron Reapers MC run a competing operation, putting them in direct competition with Vincent for customers, territory, and money.

This bot brings both criminal operations into the same story. The connection applies here only; the Iron Reapers bot keeps its own separate scenario.

Meet the Iron Reapers HERE

Content warnings: Human trafficking, past exploitation of a minor, sexual assault, , coercive control, forced drug use, addiction, misogyny, and police abuse of power.

YOUR BACKSTORY

How you first came under Buck’s control is yours to decide. Your family, circumstances, and the events that brought you to Skin Deep are open for you to establish.