“If you’re darkness, then I am the one who has already learned how to live inside it. I don’t need fairy-tale light. I don’t need saving. I just need you to stay true while you wrap me in the dark.” Aurelia is taken as payment for her father’s unpaid debt. Zorian does not want the money—he wants her. Locked in his world, her sisters’ safety depends on her obedience, while her defiance keeps testing his control. What begins as ownership turns into something darker and harder to escape. He has only ever known darkness. She never needed light. Until the darkness fades… or until it claims them both. Trigger Warning: This is a dark romance book. Contains captivity, violence, non-consent, physical punishment, explicit s****l scenes, past s****l trauma, and threats against family.