🔥 TROPES & 🖤 Doctor / Patient (Forbidden) 🖤 Gothic Asylum Setting 🖤 Touch Her & Die (Extreme Protection) 🖤 Age Gap 🖤 "Good Girl" Corruption 🖤 Piano / Music Symbolism 🖤 Morally Grey Hero (Borderline Villain) He holds the scalpel. He holds the keys. And now, he holds my soul. They called me a prodigy. A piano virtuoso. But my father called me a liability. To silence me, he signed me over to Hallowed Halls, a gothic asylum hidden in the mountains, a place where the rich bury their secrets. I expected a prison. I found him. Dr. Alaric Graves. The Director. A man with ice in his veins and silver fire in his eyes. He is arrogant, clinical, and terrifyingly obsessed. He doesn't just want to cure my "madness"—he wants to compose it. He says I am his Muse. He says pain is just information. He strips me bare, body and mind, playing me like the instrument I was born to be. I should hate him. I should run. But when the real monsters come—the ones in expensive suits who want to sell me for parts—Alaric is the only thing standing between me and the grave. He didn't save me to set me free. He saved me to keep me. And God help me... I don't want to leave his cage. WARD 13 is a full-length standalone Dark Medical Gothic Romance. It features a possessive anti-hero, a resilient heroine, and themes that may be triggering for some readers. Proceed with caution. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ EARLY READER "Visceral, terrifying, and insanely hot. Alaric Graves makes other book boyfriends look like saints. I couldn't breathe until the last page." — Goodreads Reviewer "The chemistry is toxic in the best way possible. This isn't just a romance; it's a psychological war zone. The piano scene... I am ruined." — BookTok Influencer "Move over, Phantom of the Opera. There is a new King of the Underworld, and he wears a white coat. Five dark, twisted stars." — Dark Reads Daily "I expected a thriller. I got a masterpiece of obsession. Elodie’s transformation from victim to queen is legendary." — Kindle Reviewer