Arya: His Softest Sin

Arya Rycroft is everything the world hadn't managed to corrupt-yet.

At twenty-four, she is a brilliant doctor with steady hands and a heart that still believes in mercy. She stitches wounds no one else will touch. She whispers reassurances to the dying. She believes every life is worth saving.

Until the night she saves a man who has ended hundreds.
Nikolai Salvatori is twenty-seven and already sits at the helm of an empire carved from bone and betrayal. Ruthless.
Untouchable. Worshipped and feared in equal measure.

His name is spoken in lowered voices. His mercy is a myth.

He was meant to die on her operating table.
Instead, he opens his eyes-and decides she belongs to him.

What begins as a debt twists into an obsession. Nikolai doesn't just crave her kindness; he wants to consume it. He wants the light in her eyes when she argues with him. The tremor in her breath when she realizes exactly what he is.

He wants to be the only shadow she ever knows.
And men like him do not ask.
They take
.
As blood stains the edges of Arya's carefully built world, the lines between protector and predator blur. Nikolai will destroy anyone who dares look at her. He will burn cities, crush rivals, drown the world in violence-if it means she remains untouched.

But the most dangerous thing in her life isn't his enemies.
It's him.
Because loving a monster is one thing.
Becoming his is another.