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Jodie King
Hollow Hellion
Hollow Hellion opens The Hollows Trilogy with a woman running away to what she believes is safety, only to land at Oddity Carnival, reputed to be the most horrifying spectacle in the States.
There she is drawn into the orbit of Hellion, the carnival's ringleader, a man whose obsession with his "broken dolly" turns into a campaign to dominate and unmake her. He wants to break her through pain and control. What he doesn't expect is that pain is already familiar territory for her, and that his need to possess her will collide, violently and intimately, with her own submissive desires.
Set against a backdrop of face paint, sideshow spectacle, and carnival menace, this is a dark, explicit romance about a sadist and a masochist finding each other inside a world built on illusion and cruelty. It does not shy away from consensual kink, psychological manipulation, or graphic violence, and it ends on a cliffhanger that carries into the next book in the trilogy.
Ringleader of the Hollows at Oddity Carnival; a sadist obsessed with the narrator.