For the soft hearts with steel spines—
the ones who bleed, and still choose to love.
For every Elena who forgave life even when it didn’t deserve it,
and every Luca who learned that gentleness
is not a weakness, but a revolution.
This story is yours—
the story of two broken edges
finding a way to fit without cutting each other.
To the ones who rebuild themselves,
even after the world tries to burn them down—
may you wear your ruins like armor.
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Damian Hale was raised in violence and forged into a weapon for the Volkov empire. As Adrian Volkov’s most feared enforcer, he lives by one rule—feel nothing, need nothing, love no one. Then there’s Alina Volkov. Brilliant. Untouchable. The Volkov princess who refuses to be caged. Damian has spent years protecting her from the shadows, keeping his distance from the only light he has ever known. Because men like him are born for sin, not salvation. But Alina has never followed rules—especially his. When a dangerous enemy resurfaces from Damian’s past, targeting Alina to destroy the Volkov family, distance is no longer an option. Forced into close quarters, the tension between them ignites into something far more dangerous than attraction. She sees the nightmares he hides. He sees the fear she refuses to show. And the deeper they fall, the more impossible it becomes to pretend this is only protection. Because Damian isn’t just fighting enemies anymore—he’s fighting the truth. He would burn the world to keep her safe. Even if the only thing that might destroy her… is loving him.
We were told that power is a shield, but I’ve found it’s more of a glass house—transparent, fragile, and freezing at night. We’ve watched the "Kings" move through marble halls, seen the way they wear their sins like custom tailoring, and whispered about the women who finally brought them to their knees. But what happens in the stillness between the pages? Verses of the Vices is a descent. It is a collection of seven autopsies performed on the hearts of men who thought they were untouchable. These poems are for the ones who look at a throne and see a cage. For the ones who know that wrath is just a mask for grief, and that gluttony is just a hunger for a home that doesn't exist. From the suffocating luxury of Smoke in Suit to the raw, quiet surrender of What the Fire Forgot, this collection maps the distance between who these men are and who they become when the lights go out. They say money can’t buy a soul, but it can certainly build a beautiful place to lose one. Welcome to the wreckage. It’s more beautiful than you were led to believe. Even the gods bleed when they love. — A.V.
Adrian Volkov and Seraphina Vale collide long before they understand each other. One accidental photograph captures classified Volkov intel, turning Seraphina into a supposed threat and Adrian into the enemy she never asked for. A misunderstanding spirals into scandal, and the only way out is a one-year marriage contract neither wants—yet neither can refuse. He expects obedience. She offers defiance. Both ignite. Seraphina’s quiet strength cracks Adrian’s control, revealing the man beneath the armor—loyal, wounded, terrifyingly devoted. And as she learns the shadows he carries, he begins to feel the one thing he swore he wouldn’t: her. But the past she ran from returns, ruthless and unrelenting. To save her, Adrian crosses lines he once treated as untouchable. To protect him, Seraphina steps into a world built on danger and loyalty. Their story stops being a fight against each other and becomes a war they face together. Obsessive. Devastating. Inevitable. Crown of Obsession is a story of two opposites who should have destroyed each other—and instead learned what it means to belong.
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