The Obsessive silent Syndicate

"I would let this chip burn through my flesh and char my bones to dust if it meant I got to spend these few minutes holding your hand in the dark."

Malak is the reclusive trillionaire architect of the world's most advanced digital surveillance grid. He owns the city's infrastructure, its data, and its laws. But his most dangerous asset is a private satellite network dedicated entirely to one woman .

Miri Vance, a brilliant, struggling painter.Bound by a strict, court-mandated electronic injunction stemming from a dark family past, Malak is legally forbidden from ever coming within 100 meters of Miri. If they cross the boundary, the tracking microchips embedded beneath their skin will trigger an immediate federal arrest sequence. For years, he settles for a digital purgatory, silently orchestrating her life, buying her art anonymously, and watching her through the screens.

Until a fatal accident forces Malak to break the grid.To save her life, Malak shatters the injunction, ripping Miri into his arms and plunging the entire metropolis into a high-tech blackout. Now fugitives from a corrupt global elite, Malak smuggles Miri away to his uncharted, off-grid island fortress, a paradise of black glass and absolute isolation.Trapped in a golden cage, Miri must confront the terrifying, intoxicating reality of Malak's pure, unhinged obsession. He doesn't just want to protect her from the forces hunting them, he wants to consume her. He has rewritten the laws of the world to keep her, and he will raze the entire city to ash before he lets anyone put a single centimeter of distance between them again.