Deep Pressure

A Sapphic Survival Romance

By: Raven Desire

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The ocean wants to crush them. The heat wants to break them. But the hunger might be the most dangerous thing of all.

Vess Vale deals in precision. As a lead hydro-engineer, she trusts data, sensors, and the cold, hard math of structural integrity. She does not trust Torryn Gant.

Torryn is six-foot-two of scarred muscle and bad attitude. A commercial saturation diver known as "The Hull," she’s a blunt instrument in a world of delicate calibration. To Vess, she’s a liability—a brute force solution to a complex problem. To Torryn, Vess is just cargo: fragile, high-maintenance, and likely to crack under pressure.

They were supposed to endure a routine inspection dive.

Instead, a winch failure drops their transfer capsule six hundred feet into the crushing black of the North Sea.

Now, they are trapped in a saturation habitat the size of a cargo van. The tether is gone. The cooling system is dead. As the temperature inside the "Can" climbs past ninety degrees, the professional distance between them evaporates.
Vess is vibrating with panic, stripped down to her base layers to survive the heat, her intellect useless against the primal fear of the dark.

Torryn is the only solid thing in a shifting world, a monolith of calm in the chaos, and the only one strong enough to hold the walls up.

When the air turns toxic and the hull starts to groan, survival demands more than just competence. It demands radical trust. Vess needs an anchor to keep from drifting away. Torryn needs a reason to be more than just a machine.

In the crushing dark, the line between adrenaline and arousal blurs. And when the pressure peaks, neither of them will be able to hold back.

TROPES & THEMES:
Extreme Forced Proximity (Trapped in a diving bell)
Massive Size Difference
Opposites Attract (The Brains vs. The Muscle)
Competence Kink / Caretaking
High-Stakes Survival
F/F Romance