HYBRIS

"The world calls him a monster.
I call him my ticket to Olympus."

Thirty-eight years old. One hundred and ten kilos of muscle. A roaring bear tattooed across his back.
Judas Vane was king of the ring until he woke up in a filthy alley with shattered knuckles and his opponent dead at his feet.

He remembers nothing.
He says nothing.

The verdict comes fast. The media smells blood. The public wants a monster.

Eris Veach is twenty-eight, Yale-educated, and hungry enough to burn the world down. Daughter of the most powerful defense attorney in the city and determined to surpass him. She doesn't want respect. She wants the throne.
Judas is the perfect case to take it.

She doesn't care if he's guilty.
She cares that it will be the most watched trial of the decade.

But inside the isolated villa where they hide from the media storm, the lines begin to blur. Eris notices what no one else does: the way Judas tends his orchids with hands built for violence, the quiet grief beneath a Grizzly's scars, the silence of a man who lost everything in a single night.

To Eris, Judas is supposed to be disposable. A means to glory in a world where mercy is weakness.
Until he becomes her blind spot.

And when the truth about the blood spilled that night finally surfaces, Eris will be forced to choose:
the career she sacrificed everything for,
or the man who, for the first time, made her feel alive.