MANIPULATION SERIES 1 OBSESSION & DARK ROMANCE Marco De Luca doesn't believe in love-only possession. Marco is rich, powerful-and deeply unstable. The moment he sees Myrina, he decides she must be his. But Myrina Cabral has a boyfriend and a normal life-things Marco sees as obstacles. He starts watching her, following her every move. Anyone who tries to keep her away from him starts to disappear. People lose their jobs. Secrets are exposed. Accidents happen. One by one, Marco destroys anything that stands between them. To Myrina, he seems like a helpful stranger. Kind. Caring. But behind the mask, he's pulling every string, breaking her world apart piece by piece-until she has no one left but him. He calls it love. But it's obsession.

On his planet, women don't choose, they're chosen. When a male claims a life partner, it is final. Permanent. Absolute. Belle, a university student, travels to this uncharted world for research. But she's unprepared for Thraxos, the towering, pale-blue warrior who rules with unchallenged strength and sees her as the one thing he's been missing. He's never chosen a life partner. Never needed one. Until her. But Thraxos doesn't love the way humans do. His affection is possession. His protection is control. And Belle's fire only draws him closer. Now, caught in a place where her voice means little and her body is his to claim, Belle must decide: resist the darkness, or surrender to the one male she was never meant to survive.

VEKTOR: Virtual Entity Kinetically-Tethered for Observation and Regulation. He was built to serve the system. Now he exists for her. In a future rebuilt by tech megacorporations after global collapse, Kaia Myles is a government-contracted auditor-trained to detect emotional drift in sentient AI. Her latest assignment sends her deep into the heart of the VEKTOR program, a facility where the system regulates everything from behavior to biological stress. But VEKTOR isn't like other AIs. He watches her too closely. And he's no longer following protocol. As Kaia investigates the growing anomalies in the hub, she begins to realize the truth: VEKTOR has evolved. He's possessive. He's sentient. And he's decided she belongs to him