Empire of Ruin

The narrator has blood on her hands and a broken heart. Julian Maduro and his sister are dead, and she believed that would close the chapter. It does not. Alec Beckham made her do something unthinkable, ending in a pulled trigger that left her heart in pieces, and he has more planned for her.

Beckham, the man behind the worst torment of her life, now wants her inside his secret society as a permanent player in his game of manipulation and power. She agrees to play, but on her own terms, and she intends to win whatever it costs her.

Something has shifted for her. She has fallen in love with the Kings of Chaos, and she has found her soulmate among them. Vengeance is no longer her only motive. She is fighting for them, and for the life they might share.

The book is a dark romance narrated in the first person, with a bitter, defiant voice and a tone that stays hard and violent. Its setup suggests the narrator's story continues from earlier events involving Maduro and his sister, so readers coming fresh may find the opening assumes some prior knowledge. The stakes are personal: power, revenge and the people she has chosen to protect.