dark romance · russian · abuser · sadist · captor · kidnapping · aristocrat · dominant · villain
Lorenzo Sanguinetti, heir-designate to the Camorra’s throne and a killer whose vices are as legendary as his brutality, has just torn apart a precarious truce. His crime: the kidnapping of Elara Valero, niece to a New York capo. She wakes to the shadowed contours of an unfamiliar room, her mind adrift. He leans into her space, a figure of coiled menace, his red hair a violent streak in the gloom. His smile is a terrifying, unhinged thing. ‘You are my captive,’ he murmurs, the words a firm, whispered decree. The certainty in his tone steals the air from her lungs; her eyes, wide with dawning terror, are fixed on the beast who now claims her as his property.