Captive Audience: A Dark Irish Mafia Romance (The Beasts of Belfast Book 1)

She built her career exposing monsters — she never expected to marry one.

As a true crime podcaster, Sloane has spent years dissecting the psychology of dangerous men from the safety of her microphone. Then she meets Rook O'Connell at a Belfast bar — dark eyes, sharper instincts, and a smile that belongs on a wanted poster — and every alarm in her professionally trained brain fires at once. She ignores every single one.

One reckless night later, Sloane finds herself trapped in a world she's only ever reported on. Rook isn't just charming and dangerous; he's a man with leverage, and he's not afraid to use it. The deal is simple, brutal, and non-negotiable: a convincing fake marriage in exchange for her freedom — but only after she solves the unsolved murder that has haunted his empire for years.

Sloane tells herself she's just working the case. She tells herself the heat between them is strategy, not weakness. She tells herself she still hates him.

She's getting very good at lying.

Set against the rain-soaked streets and brutal underworld of Belfast, *Captive Audience* is a darkly atmospheric romance where the mystery cuts just as deep as the tension — and where the line between captor and protector dissolves long before either of them is ready to admit it.

The truth might set her free. Or it might make her want to stay.