Scarlett enters Obsidian in a mask, ruined by a cruel man and desperate to reclaim what he shattered.
Ghost, a dom, keeps a darker history buried beneath his control, and the two find a raw pull there that carries no shame and does not treat pain as punishment.
By day they are strangers; after dark a haunted author and a woman on the run come apart without learning who the other really is.
Trauma and obsession shape this dark contemporary romance on the narrow line between control and surrender, where consent is treated as ritual and desire stays dangerous.
It is foremost a psychological thriller concerned with hard mental-health ground, including delusional religious obsession, and readers uneasy with harsh or distorted religious imagery should be wary.
When the past catches up and the masks come off, what remains may be too broken to endure.
