His Reckless Demand

HE BOUGHT MY DEBT. HE LOCKED THE DOOR. AND HE TOLD ME TO WEAR A DEAD WOMAN'S CLOTHES.

Maya: I was invisible. Just a cater-waiter in a cheap uniform, invisible to the billionaires swilling champagne in the museum hall. Until he saw me. Roman Lazarov. The King of New York. Cold, ruthless, and terrifyingly beautiful. He didn't look at me with lust. He looked at me like he'd seen a ghost.

When my brother's gambling debt landed us in the crosshairs of a Russian mobster, I thought my life was over. I was wrong. It was just beginning. Roman didn't just pay the seventy thousand dollars. He bought me. He dragged me to his glass penthouse in the sky and locked the door. He gave me a studio to paint in, a closet full of beige cashmere, and a list of rules. Don't leave. Don't speak to outsiders. Don't ask about the nightmares that make him scream in the dark.

I thought he was a monster collecting a pretty toy. I thought he wanted to break me. But as the walls close in and his enemies circle, I realize the truth is much darker. He isn't keeping me here to possess me. He's keeping me here to rewrite history. He thinks he can save the girl he let burn five years ago. But I am not a ghost. I am a fire. And if he's not careful, I'm going to burn his glass fortress to the ground.

Roman: I failed once. I will not fail again. Maya Ventura is reckless. She is chaotic. She is everything I hate. She is also the only thing standing between my sanity and the abyss. My enemy found her first. He saw the resemblance. He set the trap. So I did the only thing I could: I took her off the board. I put her in a cage to keep the wolves away. I told myself it was a transaction. An asset protection strategy. But every time she fights me, every time she looks at me with those defiant eyes, the ice around my heart cracks a little more. She thinks I'm the villain of her story. She doesn't know that I'm the only one willing to become a monster to keep her alive.

HIS RECKLESS DEMAND is a high-heat, standalone Dark Billionaire Romantic Suspense. It features a possessive anti-hero, a feisty heroine, and a twisted game of cat and mouse where the line between jailer and savior blurs.

TROPES & THEMES:

• Dark Billionaire Romance

• Captive / Forced Proximity (The "Glass Cage")

• Enemies to Lovers

• Doppelgänger / Past Trauma (Obsession with a ghost)

• "Touch Her and Die" Vibes

• Debt / Contract Relationship

• Artist Heroine / Broken Hero

• Morally Grey Anti-Hero

(Note: This book contains mature themes, violence, and explicit content intended for adult readers.)