He was sent to kill me. But he made me his instead. My family is my curse. The reason I live in a gilded cage. The reason I can never be free. When a stranger offers me a chance to escape, I take it. I run right into the arms of the man they call the Penitent. He is silent and brutal. An assassin whose soul is as dark as the tattoos etched into his skin. He says he’s going to keep me. That I’m his now. His little doll. His to protect. His to play with. His to break. He was sent to kill me, but he’s become my only chance at survival. And as the walls of my gilded cage close in, the Penitent is coming. For them.
