Beautiful Savage

He locked her in a cage. It was the first place she’d ever felt free.

Daphne Gilles has spent her whole life being good.

Small. Sweet. Palatable.

She teaches ballet in a town where nothing ever happens—locks the hungry, reckless parts of herself behind a bedroom door no one is allowed to open.

Because Daphne doesn’t only want to be desired.

She wants to be watched.

Then a scarred giant enters her father’s cottage at dawn and carries her away.

Gunner is the Delgado family’s most lethal weapon. A man with a ruined face, a silence sharp enough to cut, and a nine-year vendetta that has finally led him here. He has spent years keeping to the shadows, ensuring no one looks too closely at the monster he has become.

Daphne was never supposed to matter.

She was leverage. A means to an end. One more piece on the board in a war he intends to finish.

But the cage Gunner locks her inside becomes the first place Daphne has ever felt free. And the man who refuses to be seen is the first one who truly sees her—the shameful desires, the reckless hunger, the secret thrill she finds beneath another person’s gaze.

And he doesn’t ask her to hide.

She should fear him.

Instead, she begins to crave the sound of his footsteps outside her room. The violence in his hands. The way his control fractures when she pushes too far. And the dangerous pleasure of making a man who lives in the shadows step into the light beside her.

She was meant to be his captive.

Now she’s the one thing he cannot release.

But time is running out. The enemy who destroyed Gunner is closing in, and his revenge will leave blood across Miami. Loving him means standing at the center of the blast—and forcing them both to decide how much they are willing to reveal when being seen could become their greatest weakness.

He took her to win a war.

She taught him there were some things worth coming out of the shadows for.

Beautiful Savage is a full-length standalone dark mafia romance featuring an obsessive, touch-her-and-die antihero, a captive heroine who stops wanting to be rescued, dark Beauty and the Beast vibes, forced proximity, exhibitionism, scorching power play, and a happily ever after worth every scar.

Book 3 in the Rosetti Club Miami series.