"I don't normally do this sort of thing." Norma blurted out, as Alex turned off the engine and they sat in silence for a moment. "Going home with a stranger from a bar..." She waved her hand towards him, breathing out a nervous laugh. "I mean..." She turned her gaze away from him. "I don't even know you!"

Set fifteen years before the events of "Bates Motel". When Sam Bates drags his wife Norma and her two young sons to the town of White Pine Bay, the family is immediately met by Deputy Alex Romero who finds himself drawn to the headstrong young mother and the lives of her two boys. Warning. Very mild erotica. Nothing too graphic.

Alex is everything Norma had ever wanted in a husband, so we can't she stop manipulating and antagonising him? Why can't she let go and be with him the way he wants to be with her? Trigger warning - Chap. 1 has mild references to past sexual violence. Future chapters may refer to this more implicitly. Will not be the main focus of the story though.