Dancing With a Devil
Detailed Blurb Olivia Black never believed in monsters—until she saved one. As a literature professor's assistant at Hartwick University, Olivia's world is built on footnotes, first editions, and the safe predictability of....
Detailed Blurb Olivia Black never believed in monsters—until she saved one. As a literature professor's assistant at Hartwick University, Olivia's world is built on footnotes, first editions, and the safe predictability of academic life. Her biggest concern is meeting dissertation deadlines, not the criminal empires that bleed through the city's polished surface. Raphael Lockwood is a man with two faces. By day, he's the enigmatic CEO of Lockwood Global—a billion-dollar empire built on real estate, technology, and ruthless corporate takeovers. By night, he's something far more dangerous: The Shark, the youngest don to ever control the Corsini crime family's American operations. In boardrooms, he's untouchable. In the underworld, he's unstoppable. Their worlds collide in blood and consequence. When Olivia witnesses an assassination attempt outside her university library, she makes a split-second decision that saves a stranger's life—not knowing the stranger is Raphael Lockwood, and that her intervention has just made her a target. Worse, it's made her an obsession. Raphael doesn't do gratitude. He doesn't do mercy. And he certainly doesn't do relationships. But something about the sharp-tongued academic who refused to look away ignites a possessive need he's never felt before. She's everything his world isn't: honest, brilliant, untouched by violence. And now that he's seen her, he'll burn his empire to ash before he lets her go. But obsession is a two-edged blade. As Raphael pulls Olivia deeper into his dangerous reality—claiming her under the guise of protection—she discovers that the greatest threat isn't his enemies. It's him. The man who commands loyalty through fear. The don who's never lost a war. The CEO who plays by no rules but his own. Because The Shark doesn't just take what he wants. He devours it whole. When a killer wants you dead and a monster wants you alive, survival becomes the least of your worries. Especially when you're starting to crave the darkness as much as he craves you.
Disclaimer: This show may contain expletives, strong language, and mature content for adult listeners, including sexually explicit content and themes of violence. This is a work of fiction and any resemblance to real persons, businesses, places or events is coincidental. This show is not intended to offend or defame any individual, entity, caste, community, race, religion or to denigrate any institution or person, living or dead. Listener's discretion is advised.
