Blurb

I wanted to leave my old life behind and never think of it again. And most of all, I never wanted to attend Saint Rafael’s Academy. But when my parents sign me up for the initiation ceremony—the Summoning—against my will to earn the right to my name within the Angel Society, I have no choice but to face my fears.

Because there they linger around every corner, pulling me back into darkness and wrapping their sharp claws around my neck. It takes everything in me to maintain my innocent and flawless image, and the last thing I need is a walking reminder of the life I left behind.

But when the Strategist—one of the masked strangers and future Elite of the Angel Society—forces his way into my life and holds me hostage with his knowledge about my past, there is no escaping him. Yet, the closer I get to him, the more his twisted and vicious treatment of me seems to heal something inside my broken soul. I need his revenge, and I start to crave his attention, his power over me, and the ways he plays with me, even when they threaten my life.

But I only have to survive him for so long before he loses interest. Right?

Tropes

• dark bully romance

• psycho x good girl

• dark, secretive past

• possessive MMC with a mask

• Mafia vibes

• touch her and die (literally)

• paranormal academic setting

Trigger warnings

• bullying

• verbal abuse by a parent

• stalking

• panic attacks

• death of a close relative

• murder

• grief

• severe mental anguish

• self-harm

• thoughts about suicide

• a fatal accident

• struggles with abuse and addiction

• psychopathic and narcissistic tendencies

• fade-to-black sexual assault scene

• dubcon

• edging

• breath play

• fear play

• degradation

• orgasm control and denial

• begging

• semi-public sex

• anal play