Her father owed a debt she knew nothing about. Now she belongs to Nikolai Blackstone until he decides otherwise.When Mara's father disappears, she doesn't grieve. She calculates. She has spent twenty-four years learning to do that - learning to map every room she enters, identify every exit, and never show the one thing that gets you killed in the world she grew up adjacent to.
Fear.
Nikolai Blackstone comes to her door on a Sunday evening. He is not loud, not threatening, not the kind of dangerous she expected. He is the kind of dangerous she didn't know existed - still and certain and cold in the way of a man who has never needed to raise his voice because he has never been refused.
He takes her to his tower. Forty floors above a city she grew up in, she is given a room, a cat, and the particular understanding that she is staying until he decides she isn't.
Mara expected a cage. What she finds is more complicated than that.
Nikolai Blackstone is not a good man. He will never pretend to be. He controls everything in his world - and now that includes her. But the more she maps the shape of him, the more she understands that control and possession are not the same thing as cruelty. And the more he watches her refuse to flinch, the more she becomes something he hadn't planned for.
A weakness.
In a world where weakness gets people killed, Nikolai Blackstone has made a decision:
She is not leaving.
CLAIMED is a full-length dark romance novel featuring a morally grey possessive hero, an intelligent and fierce heroine, dark themes, and an open-door romance. Intended for readers 18+.
The Blackstone Series:
Book One: Claimed
Book Two: Kept
Book Three: Broken
Book Four: Ruined
Book Five: Owned
Book Six: Punished
Book Seven: Bound
Book Eight: Hunted
