Saint of Ruin
In the explosive finale of the Gilded Knife Vows trilogy, forensic art restorer Seraphine Vale holds the evidence to destroy the secret auction house that ruined her family. On the night of the Draven succession vote, ruthless heir Nikolai Draven offers her the one thing he has never surrendered: total control of the archive and the freedom to walk away. Rival heirs seize her studio, his sister Mara disappears, and the final ledger reveals Seraphine’s father as both victim and collaborator. Forced into the flooded tunnels and velvet chambers of the crumbling empire, Seraphine and Nikolai fight their way through violence, betrayal, and explicit, emotionally charged surrender. With praise and degradation as weapons and consent as the only rule that matters, they dismantle the network, free Mara, and choose each other with nothing left to hide. For readers who want dark romance that is intensely explicit, dialogue-heavy, and unafraid of the cost of devotion, Saint of Ruin delivers a complete enemies-to-lovers HEA where love survives only when power is given, not taken. Free sample available.