Author: Myla Carbo
Release: November 18th '26 (ARC's expected September '26)
Genre: Dark Romantic Thriller / Psychological Suspense / Mafia Gothic Romance
"A thousand years ago, House Moretti sinned beneath the eyes of gods who did not forgive. The Flayed Concord was their punishment, and the monster was its heir."
The boy Alina once saved became the Concord’s most feared executioner, and he has returned
wearing a dead man’s name.
Forensic psychiatrist Alina Bernardi is drawn to Enzo Bellini, a silent inmate who speaks only for
her. In her dreams, a stranger turns her secret fantasies into commands. She cannot know both men
are Damien Vincenzo Moretti: mafia lord, obsessive stalker, and Bearer of the Void, the Concord’s
ritual executioner.
Damien skins traitors alive. He obeys laws older than the mafia. And since Alina showed him
kindness at Santa Rosalia, every violent part of him has belonged to her, no matter the cost.
When the real Enzo is found dead, Alina is framed and dragged into House Moretti’s women’s
wing: a beautiful prison guarding centuries of buried bloodlines. There, she discovers her forgotten
childhood.
Her forgotten past is the key to a thousand-year-old lie, and Damien has spent his entire life
becoming the weapon she will need to break it.
Tropes:
- Patient / psychiatrist
- Hidden identity
- Secret society
- Ancient curse
- Ritual claiming
- Morally gray anti-hero
- Mafia gothic romance
- Ancient criminal order
- Forbidden obsession
- Dark rituals and blood oaths
- Beauty and the monster
(Ps; he is touch-avoidant & she is touch-starved + he ONLY speaks to her)
Heat & Content
Dark themes, stalking, captivity elements, psychological manipulation, graphic violence, blood rituals, trauma, and morally ambiguous characters. Recommended for mature readers only.
Art made by: Kateryna Kostyk / @kkaterriina.art
