The Thorne Report #6

✦ Welcome

You’ve found your way back to The Thorne Report.

Another dispatch from the House of Thorne — where stories smolder, secrets shift, and nothing ever cools for long.

Inside: updates, new offers, a SPECIAL PRICING ANNOUNCEMENT, and a few sparks I couldn’t keep to myself. Consider this your standing invitation to linger a little longer.

✦ In Production

Deep Cover

CIA operative Sean Peters is sent to Dubai under a false identity to infiltrate the world of Nathan Rourke, a reclusive defense-tech billionaire with dangerous proximity to classified weapons contracts. Traditional surveillance fails, forcing Sean into a high-risk pivot: gaining Rourke’s trust through proximity, desire, and emotional access.
Deep Cover explores identity, power, and the cost of using desire as cover—where the operation succeeds, and the damage is personal.

The Body Farm

A slow-burn academic romance set over a sweltering weekend at a forensic research facility, where bodies are studied not for spectacle, but for truth. As an anthropology student is pulled out of his emotional detachment and into close proximity with his TA, intellectual rigor gives way to something far more intimate. What unfolds is a story about observation becoming participation, desire challenging restraint, and the quiet danger of learning what a body reveals when everything else stops talking.

✦ Coming Soon

“USE ME HERE”

Use Me Here follows Tripp and Aaron as their relationship strains under pressures they never fully confront together. Tripp manages his anxiety and academic stress through anonymous cruising—encounters that give him release and control without intimacy. He treats sex as a coping mechanism, something contained and disconnected, believing that because it doesn’t involve emotion, it doesn’t threaten what he has with Aaron.

Aaron feels the distance without knowing its source. Still invested in the relationship, he unexpectedly meets Casey, whose attention and desire offer something Aaron hasn’t felt in a while: presence. As Aaron becomes torn between loyalty and the pull of being wanted, he remains unaware that Tripp is sleeping with strangers in parks. The story tracks these parallel, unspoken choices—one rooted in secrecy, the other in hesitation—and explores how two people can believe they’re protecting the same relationship while quietly dismantling it from opposite sides.

🚪NEWS FROM THE ROOM OF INDULGENCE

“THE STEPDAD DIARIES”

Eighteen-year-old Harrison knows he shouldn’t still be living at home—but with his mom gone, money tight, and no clear way out, he’s stuck.

What starts with a glance in the hallway—skin still wet from the shower—builds into something neither of them can ignore. One charged conversation becomes a line crossed, then a boundary shattered. In the thick heat of a summer night, with need too loud to contain, they give in. Hands, mouths, breath, bodies—everything unraveling in a rush of aching hunger and forbidden release.

But what they find in each other isn’t just lust—it’s gravity. It’s something raw and real and irreversible.

The Stepdad Diaries is a slow-burn descent into taboo desire and erotic awakening. A story about restraint snapped, lines blurred, and the way two men lose themselves in one night they can’t take back—and might not want to.

“FROM ACROSS THE ROOM”

After ten years of marriage, Jensen agrees to an arrangement he never thought he’d accept: watching his wife sleep with another man. What begins as a carefully negotiated compromise—meant to revive a stagnant intimacy—slowly unravels as Jensen realizes that observation offers neither safety nor neutrality. Told through the night that changes everything, From Across the Room traces how a marriage renegotiates desire—and how one man discovers that agreeing is not the same as choosing.

More offerings are on the Horizon—grab a paid subscription to The Room of Indulgence if kink, taboo, and fetish is your thing.

✦ Price Increase—Upgrade Now to Lock In Rate

As this publication continues to grow, I need to make an adjustment to ensure I can keep delivering the level of quality, consistency, and ambition you’ve come to expect—from the stories themselves to the audio, extras, and behind-the-scenes work that support them.

The new pricing will take effect on February 15, 2026.

Here’s what’s changing:

• Monthly subscriptions will increase from $8.99/month to $12/month
• Annual subscriptions will increase from $50/year to $120/year

The Founding Membership will increase to $169, and will now include unlimited access to The Room of Indulgence as part of that tier.

And while it may seem substantial, this change allows me to invest more deeply in the work itself—building richer worlds, spending more time expanding existing stories and characters, and giving longer arcs the space they deserve rather than rushing from one release to the next.

It also gives me the time and resources to expand the podcast and audio read-aloud offerings—more narrated scenes, more full-length audio experiences, and deeper companion conversations that let stories live beyond the page.

What this means for current subscribers:
If you’re already subscribed, nothing changes.

• Current subscribers are locked into their existing rates
• Your price will not increase as long as you remain subscribed

The new pricing will apply only to:

• New subscribers who join after February 15, 2026
• Free subscribers who upgrade after February 15, 2026
• Monthly subscribers who choose to upgrade to annual after the increase

If you’ve been considering upgrading, now is the time to do it.
Upgrade before February 15, 2026 to lock in the current rates and keep them going forward.

To facilitate the transition, I will keep this offer open until the February 14–consider it the Sweetheart Deal.

✦ Subscriber Updates

A few weeks ago, we marked 2,000 subscribers and we celebrated with the release of A Royal Affair. And now—we’re on the road to 3,000.

To mark 3,000 subscribers, I’m letting you choose the next milestone story. Below are the two contenders. One will be written and released in full.

“UNFINISHED BUSINESS”

Two exes unexpectedly run into each other during separate spring break getaways, both stuck in relationships that feel increasingly hollow. Over a few charged days, old intimacy resurfaces and unfinished history demands to be reckoned with. One night changes how they understand their past—and what they’ll carry forward.

“IN PLAIN SIGHT”

The youngest Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia is paired with an ambitious Richmond homicide detective on a high-profile case. As the investigation deepens, professional friction gives way to reliance, trust, and something more dangerous. When the case closes, neither man is the same.

Your vote determines the next milestone story.

So here’s a SHARE and REFERRAL button so we can reach our goal faster!

And…

THE TIP JAR IS NOW OPEN

I hear from a lot of you that you want to support the work that I do, but funds are tight. Well now you can use the tip jar. In the coming weeks I’ll work out a system so that larger tip amounts will get you access to certain perks, and this will work retroactively so feel free to use the tip jar and reap some benefits later.

✦ Upcoming Projects

Here’s what’s smoldering just beyond the horizon:

📘 Now Available on Amazon.com and Payhip

The House of Thorne is officially live on Amazon KDP as well as Payhip.

All long-form work will now be published as ebooks—available à la carte, no subscription required.

For readers subscribed to Kindle Unlimited, these titles are also available there.

This felt like the right next step—stories given room to breathe, to linger, to be returned to when the ending still hasn’t settled. The newsletter opens the door. The books let you stay.

✦ Special Note: A Note on Stories

Stories have always been how we recognize ourselves. Long before we had language for who we were or permission to say it out loud, we told stories—about wanting, about loss, about the things that changed us and the moments that almost did.

What draws me to writing isn’t spectacle. It’s the human experience in its smallest, most honest form. The glance that lingers. The choice made too late. The moment someone realizes they are not who they thought they were five minutes ago. Those are the places where stories live—not in the resolution, but in the recognition.

When a story connects, it’s rarely because it’s perfect. It’s because it feels true. Because something in it mirrors a memory, a fear, a hope the reader didn’t know how to name until they saw it on the page.

That’s the work. To write with enough care—and enough courage—that the distance between the story and the reader disappears, if only for a moment.

—R. Adrian Thorne

Until the next ember catches
Ever yours in shadow and flame