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We stopped pretending it was a game the night we tied her to the altar. The Circle was supposed to be fun, reckless nights, bodies worshiped like temples, and dares that ended in moans instead of mistakes. But something has changed. The symbol carved into the wood grows sharper every time we see it. Someone is feeding it in the dark. And now our rituals taste like devotion laced with sin. We don’t just touch anymore. We take. We claim. We ruin. They say you can walk away from this. They’ve never felt the ropes. Never begged for the burn. Never been worshiped and wrecked in the same breath.

Harmony is terrified when she awakens on a raft in the middle of the ocean with a deadly, tattooed Lord of the Sea hulking over her. But she quickly realizes he’s the one who saved her from the storm—and that joining his undersea world is the only way she’ll survive. Mer warlord Faier dreads his bride’s terror as she stares on his wrecked body. A lifetime of honorable service has destroyed his ability to woo a mate. … Or can the pure-hearted female look past his scars when she willingly takes his muscled arm? This star-crossed pair is stranded deep in forbidden territory.

Twenty-three year old Sosa lives in the shadows, a predator searching for meaning in the chaos he creates; twenty-seven year old Greer Jennings has spent her life surviving ghosts, craving danger she can’t explain. Of course, neither expected the other, but once they meet, isolation turns into addiction, and obsession becomes the only language they speak. Together, they build a world where pain is devotion, silence is intimacy, and nothing pure survives because when you find the person who mirrors your madness, walking away isn’t an option.