Ruined by Desire

She sells her freedom for her mother’s next breath.

Lucien Vale’s contract doesn’t just buy her time—it claims her.

Desperate and drowning in medical debt, she signs away her choices and is delivered to Lucien’s secluded mansion: a place of velvet silence, locked windows, and rules designed to reshape her from the inside out. Every morning is “training.” Every hallway feels watched. Every mirror feels like a test. And the man behind the contract is colder than the ink that binds her—until his attention turns obsessive, his restraint turns dangerous, and she realizes he isn’t collecting bodies… he’s collecting truths.

Lucien keeps records. Portraits. Proof of the women who came before—and the ones who didn’t leave whole. The deeper she digs, the more his polished control cracks, exposing scars, secrets, and a hunger that matches her own. But wanting him is the most perilous part of the bargain, because desire here is never simple—it’s a weapon, a confession, and a choice that could ruin them both.

Ruined by Desire is a dark, explicit contemporary romance featuring power exchange, obsession, and high-heat intimacy.