The Hook: He runs the city with an iron fist and a cold heart. She was just a girl in the wrong bar at the right time. He didn’t just save her; he decided to own her.
Sneak Peek: Mia followed her high-school sweetheart to New York City for a dream that died on arrival. Now, she’s trapped in a cycle of toxic loyalty to a man who has traded his talent for alcohol.
Everything changes the night she meets Ronald Buckley.
Ronnie is the city’s most feared drug lord, a man who views people as assets and emotions as liabilities. He doesn’t do “knight in shining armor,” yet when he sees Mia being broken by the man she’s supposed to love, he intervenes with a violence that is as terrifying as it is seductive.
Ronnie wants her. Not as a one-night distraction, but as his ultimate obsession. Mia knows he’s a monster, but in his world of shadows and silk, she finally feels seen. But when his enemies realize the King has a weakness, Mia must decide if she’s willing to be the casualty in a war she never asked to join.