Bidding On Broken Glass // Dark Romance
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Last published Thu, Jul 24, 2025
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Dr. Elara Vance thought mastering life-and-death in the operating room was her greatest challenge. Then her brilliant, ruthless mentor, Dr. Silas Thorne, offered salvation: erase her crushing debts, save her dying sibling.
The price?
Participation in his exclusive "study." But the operating theatre was just a warm-up. Thorne isn't studying medicine...he's auctioning her resilience to bored, unseen elites who bid on her suffering. Trapped in a gilded cage of his making, Elara's scalpel-sharp mind becomes her only weapon.
To survive his orchestrated hell of impossible choices and psychological torment, she must outmaneuver the man who taught her everything, even as a terrifying, unwanted attraction ignites in the ruins of her trust.
In this high-stakes game where she's the prize, can she turn the scalpel on the master himself before she breaks?
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