Twisted Devotion

Emily has grown up with one warning about her father's mortuary: nobody goes in after midnight. She treats it as superstition until she learns what he has been doing there. He has been cremating bodies for a crime lord, and she has walked into the middle of it.

The crime lord is Ruarc. He has run his organisation since taking the throne, and his rule is to stay uninvolved. Then he sees the undertaker's daughter, a woman he did not know existed, and he decides she belongs to him. He stalks her, takes her captive, and uses her to blackmail her father.

Emily should hate him for it. Instead she is drawn into a dark and physical attraction that wears away her sense of herself the longer it lasts.

This is a dark mafia romance told in alternating first-person chapters from Emily and Ruarc. The dynamic is captor and captive, with obsession, possessiveness and coercion at the centre. Expect an intense, menacing tone, with a morbid setting and a sexual charge that builds alongside the danger. It suits readers who want a villainous hero and a heroine caught in his grip.