by Katee Robert
First published 2025
She used to believe in love. She doesn't anymore. Now she believes in revenge, and getting it means going to the one man she never wanted to owe anything to: Hook. Hook doesn't do favors. He wants a wife, and he's decided she's it. His terms are a ring on her finger and her on her knees, and he makes clear he won't accept a refusal. The deal is brutal and she knows it going in. But Pan has to fall. Whatever it costs her, whatever she has to surrender, bringing Pan down matters more than protecting herself from Hook. She agrees. The tension at the center of this book is not whether she can outmaneuver Hook. It's whether she can survive being close to him without losing the part of herself she's been fighting to keep. She came to him carrying a debt she can't pay any other way. He came to her with plans she doesn't fully understand yet. Between them sits a bargain that could destroy Pan and, just as easily, destroy her.
Genres: romance, adult, adult-fiction, fantasy-romance, dark-romance, contemporary-romance
Vibes: dark, emotional, gritty, intense, suspenseful, tension-filled
Tropes: dark-bargain, enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, marriage-of-convenience, slow-burn-romance
352 pages · Paperback · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Content warnings: abuse, explicit-sexual-content, toxic-relationship