Wrong Table

She was looking for Greg.Elara Vance walks into an exclusive Chicago restaurant on a rainy November evening, nervous, wearing borrowed shoes, searching for a blind date she's never met. She approaches the corner table. Asks the man sitting there if he's Greg.He isn't.Lucien Cross is a ruthlessly intelligent, devastatingly handsome billionaire who was planning to leave before she sat down. But when a lonely, beautiful stranger mistakes him for someone else, he makes a split-second decision: he lies. He plays the part. He pours the wine. He asks questions no first date should ask—and she answers every one.By the time the check arrives, Lucien has already decided she's not going home.She wakes in a penthouse sixty-two floors above the city. The doors are locked. The windows don't break. Her phone is gone. And the man who brought her there isn't hiding what he is—he's showing her, piece by piece, that the cage he built is more beautiful than anything she left behind.What begins as captivity becomes something far more dangerous: a choice.Because Elara isn't just fighting to escape. She's fighting the terrifying realization that she doesn't want to.THE WRONG TABLE is a full-length dark psychological romance with an obsessive, morally gray hero and a captive heroine who discovers that the most dangerous prisons are the ones you choose to stay in. This book contains mature themes including psychological captivity, explicit content, power dynamics, and a dark "e;happy for now"e; ending. Intended for readers 18+.