About this book
What happens when the man who steals your freedom becomes the only one worth fighting for?
Reed Sarrons has built her entire life on the pursuit of truth. As a razor-sharp investigative journalist haunted by the unsolved murder of her mentor, she operates on instinct, hypervigilance, and an uncompromising refusal to look away from darkness. She doesn't need saving. She never has. But when her investigation into organized crime drags her too close to the wrong people, Reed discovers that some truths come with a body count — and someone far more dangerous than her enemies has been watching her all along.
James Derlow rules his empire from the shadows. Ruthless. Calculating. Utterly untouchable. When a single anonymous encounter with a cold-eyed journalist cracks something open inside him, he does the only thing a man like him knows how to do — he takes control. What begins as obsession becomes possession. What begins as captivity becomes something neither of them can name, let alone survive without.
Held inside James's fortress at the top of the city, stripped of her identity and her freedom, Reed faces a choice that has no clean answer: submit and survive, or fight and lose everything. But Reed Sarrons has never played a game she didn't intend to win. As the walls between captor and protector begin to dissolve, and the criminal war closing in around them demands a different kind of loyalty, Reed must decide how far she's willing to fall — and whether falling was ever something she could control.
A dark, obsessive, slow-burn mafia romance. The Don's Obsession is an unflinching exploration of power, identity, and the violence of becoming. For readers of corrupt antiheroes, morally grey heroines, and love stories that refuse to apologize for their edges.
Content Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, dubious consent, power dynamics, graphic violence, and dark psychological themes. Intended for mature readers.
Comparable to the darkness of Penelope Douglas and the psychological intensity of Katee Robert.
