Dark Restraint

Ariadne Vitalis has betrayed her father and the dangerous man who backs him. With nowhere else to go, she turns to the ruling houses of Olympus for protection, and the price is a sham marriage to Dionysus.

Dionysus is not the man she wants. She has long desired the Minotaur just as strongly as she has feared him, and he has no intention of letting anyone else claim her.

The book is the seventh in the Dark Olympus series, a contemporary retelling of Greek mythology set in a city run by crime. This installment retells the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur. It leans harder on political intrigue and family drama than earlier volumes, with higher stakes around the struggle for power among the Olympians.

The romance pairs a marriage of convenience with a gruff, possessive love interest. It belongs to dark romance and includes dubious consent and violence, as the series does throughout. Ariadne must stay alive among rival houses while a protective marriage binds her to the wrong man.