My Dark Desire

A woman breaks into the most heavily guarded manor in Potomac with a plain job to do: take back her pendant and leave unseen. She does not get out. Zachary Sun, described as America's most unattainable bachelor, catches her in the house.

He does not call the police. Instead he keeps her there as a maid, so the thief ends up working under the roof she tried to rob. Zachary is reserved, calculated and cruel, and he gets his power from other people's weak spots.

His winter is the coldest she has known, yet he makes her skin burn. She has no intention of bowing to him. She fights back, and she means to rise from servant to something much higher than the household expects.

This is a forbidden romance with a Cinderella frame: a damaged billionaire, a disgraced young woman and a wide gap in status between them. Both leads are grumpy and stubborn, so the pairing runs on friction. The book is a standalone, set in the Dark Prince Road world.

The question is who breaks first: the man who feeds on weakness, or the maid who will not show him any.