Marked by Thorne

At nineteen, Raven Kind has learned to survive-not live.

The quiet, haunted college sophomore spends her days navigating classes, hiding her scars, and caring for the father who drinks to forget. Her mother's mysterious death when Raven was a child still casts a long shadow; one no one dares to explain. With no real support system aside from her fiercely loyal best friend Nila and Nila's med-student boyfriend, Raven's life is stitched together with quiet strength, unshed tears, and ink on paper.

When desperate for money to stay in school, Raven applies to work at the city's most elite hotel-only to be thrown into a world of hidden power, illegal auctions, and secrets dripping with blood and wealth. A mistake lands her in the crosshairs of a private black-market auction... where she is sold to the highest bidder.

Soren Thorne, 22, brilliant, dangerous, and cold-hearted, is the masked billionaire behind the hotel-and the underground empire that fuels it. For reasons unknown, he purchases Raven for an illegal human auction and offers her a twisted deal: pretend to be his girlfriend to secure an international business expansion, and in return... she gets a shot at her freedom.

Surrounded by six powerful men with deadly secrets in all, locked in a world of luxury and manipulation, Raven must tread carefully-especially as her past begins to unravel in ways she never saw coming. One man may hold her future, but someone else already stole her past.

And someone wants her gone before the truth surfaces.

In a story of secrets, power, and unexpected connection, Raven will have to decide: survive again-or finally take control.