I wasn’t supposed to be here. But I knew exactly what I was doing when I took her place. Obsidian Island is a secret playground for the powerful, where men bid in silence and women are expected to smile through the surrender. Here, purity is currency—and we’re auctioned like art. They think I’m one of them. They don’t know I came for him. Cain. That’s what they call him here. But I knew him before the island. I watched him for years, long before I ever stepped into his world. And now I’m in it—chosen, claimed, and stripped of the control I thought I had. Because Cain doesn’t break you all at once. He unravels you slowly. And if I want to survive this island, I’ll have to let him ruin me.