Trey Some sins don’t leave scars—they carve themselves deep and stay. I’ve tried to drown mine in ink, chaos, and music. But the night I stumble out of Portland’s shadows and into her life, everything changes. Seraphina Carmichael. Red hair. Haunted eyes. An angel dressed in bruises, clinging to Bibles like they’re armor. Her father’s a monster in a pastor’s robe, and now he’s offering her to one of his own—a man promising obedience through pain. She asks me for the unthinkable. A marriage in name only. A way out. A chance at freedom. But the second she becomes mine—There’s nothing pretend about it. I’ll burn the whole world down before I let her go. Sera My father says I was born cursed. That my mother’s sins live in my blood, in my red hair, in every breath I take. He says pain is purification. That obedience brings salvation. And now… he’s giving me to one of his faithful. A man with cruel hands and dark desires. A man who says he’ll break me to save me. Then I meet Trey Baker. Tattooed. Loud. Infamous. A warning in human form. And the only person who sees me. I ask him to marry me—just on paper. But with him, nothing feels fake. Maybe salvation doesn’t come from above. Maybe it’s wrapped in ink, lit by fire, and whispered in the voice of a sinner who refuses to let me fall.