There is no mercy in love. Only possession.
 
When Noah escapes captivity after years of torment, he believes freedom will taste like air — clean, sharp, and honest. Instead, it tastes like blood. Wounded and hunted through the blackened forest, he stumbles into the path of something far worse than the men he fled… a creature that claims him with teeth and shadow.
 
Dorian Blackwell is not a man. He is an ancient, living myth — both savior and predator, cloaked in velvet and violence. Beneath his castle of stone and silence, Noah awakens to a gilded cage where care feels like cruelty and kindness cuts deeper than chains. Each act of tenderness is sharpened by control; each touch is a question of ownership.
 
As days bleed into nights, Noah’s fear curdles into something darker. Fascination. Longing. Need. And Dorian, who swore he took the boy only to protect him, finds himself breaking his own laws to keep him close.
 
In this world, love is a wound you never heal from.
 
The Tender Cruelty of Care is a dark gothic romance that blurs the line between devotion and domination, beauty and brutality, for readers who crave stories where monsters wear human faces and love demands your surrender.
 
⚠️ Trigger Warnings:
This book contains explicit adult content, scenes of psychological manipulation, captivity, violence, and intense eroticism. It is not a “safe” romance; it is a descent into the exquisite, the painful, and the profane.