hiddeninvelvet
Book One of The Nocturne Series
Nocturne was built on blood, violence, and monsters hiding beneath human skin.
Ayla Bennett never meant to become part of it.
Desperate for answers about her missing brother, Ayla takes a job inside the city's most dangerous underground fight club - a hidden world of brutal fighters, elite gamblers, and secrets powerful enough to destroy anyone who uncovers them.
Then she meets Rhys Calder.
The undefeated king of Nocturne.
Cold. Controlled. Feared by everyone around him.
Rhys fights like violence belongs to him, like every punch is keeping something monstrous buried beneath his skin. Men fear him. Women fantasize about him. And nobody survives becoming the center of his attention.
Ayla should stay far away from him.
Instead, he watches her like he's already addicted.
But beneath Nocturne lies a deadly supernatural world built on bloodlines, obsession, and monsters capable of tearing kingdoms apart. And the deeper Ayla falls into Rhys's darkness, the more she realizes the most dangerous thing inside Nocturne isn't the fighting ring.
It's him.
Because when Rhys Calder wants something... he doesn't let it go.
And for the first time in years, the monster inside him wants her.
Blood in the Ring is a dark paranormal romance filled with addictive tension, underground fight clubs, morally gray heroes, supernatural secrets, violent devotion, and touch-her-and-die obsession.