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Painted in Blood: A Dark Billionaire Captor Romance
Paperback
Series: The Empire of Obsession, Book 5
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 11 2026
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She came to take his life. He decided to take her soul.
Nyx is the Ghost-an untouchable, hyper-lethal assassin who exists only in whispers. She operates in the shadows for one single purpose: to keep her innocent sister safe from the brutal reality of the underworld. When she is offered fifty million dollars to eliminate Silas Vance, the undisputed billionaire king of the city's criminal syndicate, it's the ticket out she's been waiting for.
But Silas Vance is no ordinary target. The hyper-paranoid, ruthless predator was already waiting for her.
The assassination goes catastrophically wrong. Nyx wakes up chained in his subterranean kill room, bound by a lethal, neurotoxin-laced titanium collar. Silas offers her a devil's bargain: become his personal, leashed weapon, or he will hunt down everyone she loves and skin them alive. To protect her sister, Nyx submits.
She expects torture. She expects a monster. What she doesn't expect is his twisted, terrifying reverence.
Silas doesn't treat her like a prisoner; he treats her like a lethal masterpiece. As he guides her through blood-soaked missions, the physical cage around her neck slowly morphs into a dark, psychological obsession. Their dynamic is violent, codependent, and entirely unhinged. But when a rival threatens the only leverage keeping Nyx in check, the city will learn exactly what happens when you cross a king and his queen of slaughter.
Painted in Blood is a pitch-black, action-packed contemporary dark romance thriller.
Read if you love:
- Captor to Lover
- Morally Black Couple
- Touch-Her-And-Die / Touch-Him-And-Die
- Forced Proximity
- Billionaire Mafia Boss & Female Assassin
Please Note: This book is intended for mature audiences. It contains graphic violence, dark psychological themes, and intense situations that some readers may find distressing. Reader discretion is strongly advised.
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