Some monsters are born. Others choose to become one. At forty-three, Silas Crowe has spent a lifetime building an empire on control, manipulation, and secrets, convinced that love is nothing more than another weakness to exploit. But when a fearless young woman refuses to bend to his influence, his carefully ordered world begins to crack. As he tries to pull her into the darkness, she unknowingly awakens the humanity he buried long ago. In a dangerous dance between corruption and redemption, they’ll discover that the greatest battle isn’t for power—it’s for each other’s souls.
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@thee_artist_00The rain fell in sheets over Dublin, washing the evening light into silver puddles along the cobbled streets. In the penthouse of a building that bore no name, only a discreet brass plate, a man stood motionless before a window that stretched from floor to ceiling.