by K. Webster
First published 2020
He runs the Constantine family and expects everyone to fall in line. Cruel, controlled, and accustomed to getting exactly what he wants, he has never met anyone who holds his stare without flinching. Then Ash Elliott walks in. She needs money badly enough to accept his terms, and his terms are degrading. He pays her for her reactions, her tears, her surrender, and she keeps coming back. He tells himself it is a transaction. She tells herself the same thing. But Ash is not like the people who shrink from him, and that difference gets under his skin in ways money cannot fix. When she turns the tables and makes him an offer of her own, he has to decide whether he is willing to pay a price that has nothing to do with cash. The Constantine name carries real danger, and loving someone from inside that world can get people killed. As midnight approaches, the window for any choice at all begins to close. K. Webster's 2020 novel is a dark romance about power, transaction, and what happens when the person buying control is the one who ends up exposed.
Genres: romance, adult, adult-fiction, thriller, dark-romance, contemporary-romance
Vibes: dangerous, dark, emotionally-charged, intense, intimate, psychological
Tropes: emotional-vulnerability, enemies-to-lovers, power-imbalance, slow-burn
Setting: Constantine family
Period: 2020
328 pages · Paperback · Dangerous Press LLC
Content warnings: emotional-abuse, explicit-sexual-content, violence