“Give me those tears, pretty songbird. I want to see you cry. Give me all that pain and grief, so I can take it away.”

LAVINIA

I was ready to end it all. I had sung my last song and taken my last bow. But then he came—the man who looks like a monster but saves me from myself and a life on the run.

Taking me to a mental facility, he reduces my world to four padded walls and a long string of illicit therapies.

But despite his painful methods, Dorin gives me something I thought I’d lost forever. Hope. His cruelty silences...

“Give me those tears, pretty songbird. I want to see you cry. Give me all that pain and grief, so I can take it away.”

LAVINIA

I was ready to end it all. I had sung my last song and taken my last bow. But then he came—the man who looks like a monster but saves me from myself and a life on the run.

Taking me to a mental facility, he reduces my world to four padded walls and a long string of illicit therapies.

But despite his painful methods, Dorin gives me something I thought I’d lost forever. Hope. His cruelty silences the monsters in my head, and his darkness drowns out my own.

But something isn’t right. The pieces don’t fit. And soon, I’ll discover a truth so devastating it will drag me straight back to the nightmare I barely escaped.

DORIN

Kidnapping the girl with the angelic voice was supposed to be simple. Lock her away, break her, and sell her.

But nothing goes as planned.

When I break into her apartment, I walk in on a brutal scene—her in a tub, the water red with blood, a knife to her wrist.

She thinks I‘m her savior when I lift her out and bandage her wounds. And when I put her in a padded cell, she thinks I put her in a mental facility.

I can’t help but feed the illusion. For the first time in my brutal life, I don’t want to break. I want to heal.

But eventually, the shadows of the dungeon catch up to us, and I have to make a choice—protect my existence or risk everything for the one thing I was never meant to have.

This is the third book in The Enslaved Series. It can be read as a standalone, but it is recommended that you read Take Me and Break Me first. This book is extremely dark and explicit and deals with some heavy subject matter. Please check the content warning on the inside first and read with caution.