I always knew my stepfather, Marcus, was a man of iron will and absolute control. For years, I played the part of the dutiful daughter, hiding the way my heart raced whenever he entered a room or the way I craved the stern look in his eyes. But this summer, the rules have changed. With my mother away on a long-term business trip, the house has become a gilded cage, and Marcus has decided that I’m old enough to learn the real lessons of adulthood. He doesn't want my obedience anymore—he wants my submission. In a game of psychological tension and raw, physical dominance, I find myself craving the very hand that disciplines me, descending into a forbidden addiction where the only way out is to surrender everything.
He didn't just steal her freedom. He orchestrated her ruin. Sophia Hart witnessed a murder. The killer was Adrian Volkov—the billionaire "Devil" of the underworld. Now, she is bound to him by a marriage contract signed in blood and fear. Locked in his estate and subjected to his obsessive desires, Sophia believes she is a victim of chance. She is wrong. Adrian Volkov has been watching her for years. He created the debt. He staged the crime. He built the cage. Now that he finally has her, he’ll burn the entire city to the ground before he lets her go. Welcome to the Volkov empire. Submission is the only currency.
He was never supposed to want me. Draven — my stepbrother. The pack’s Alpha. The boy who called me little sister until the Moon decided I was his mate. Now the bond between us burns under my skin, and Draven doesn’t care about rules, or our father, or the fact that I’m supposed to be off-limits. He watches me when the Moon rises. He bleeds for me. He marked me in the Hollow and whispered that I’m his obsession, his sin, his salvation.
The Sterling estate is a gilded cage, and for Aria Thorne, the bars are forged from her parents' greed.When her father gambled away a fortune he never possessed, the debt was purchased by Silas Sterling-a man whose heart runs colder than the marble floors Aria is forced to scrub raw.Silas doesn't want the money back. He wants a plaything to break.Thrown into a sprawling mansion teeming with silent servants, Aria quickly discovers she is the only one Silas targets. He treats her with surgical cruelty, forcing her through degrading tasks designed to strip away her dignity one layer at a time. Midnight summons to his bedroom become routine, where his punishment takes a far more intimate form-his hands, his mouth, his body used to brand her with a pleasure she never asked for and a surrender she never intended to give.He wants her to crawl. He wants her to beg. He wants the fire in her eyes to dim.But the more Silas tries to crush Aria's spirit, the more his obsession deepens. What began as cruelty becomes something far more dangerous-a hunger that no amount of control can satisfy. And Aria, who swore she would hate him until her last breath, finds the most terrifying truth of all: the line between torture and pleasure is thinner than she ever imagined.In a world of absolute power and absolute submission, Silas Sterling's possessiveness transforms from calculated violence into something darker, something desperate-a love so consuming it would burn the world to ash just to keep her chained to him forever.
Elara Voss has spent her life as a ghost in a world of predators. Born without a wolf in the ruthless Silverclaw Pack, she is the "Mute"—a Beta's daughter with no voice, no claws, and no place in the hierarchy. When her father is executed for treason by the cruel Alpha Thorne, Elara is branded, beaten, and cast into the lawless Neutral Lands to die.
But survival is in her blood.
And so is Thorne.
On the verge of death, she is found by Orin, a scarred exile who carries a secret her father died to protect. He brings a leather pouch containing a bone carving, a vial of ancient blood, and a letter that shatters everything Elara knew about herself. She is not broken. She is not wolf-less. She is the daughter of Seraphina Winslow, the last Alpha of the legendary Ashborne Pack—a bloodline hunted to extinction by Thorne's family for generations.
Now, with a price on her head and a dormant power stirring in her veins, Elara must journey to the hidden camps of the exiles and embrace the fire she never knew she possessed. But when she is dragged back to Silverclaw, the mate bond ignites.
Thorne is her enemy. Thorne is her executioner.
Thorne is also her fated mate.
The wolf inside her is a sleeping giant, and waking it may cost her everything she has left. Including her heart.