Deviant: A Dark Captive Romance (The Brethren Lords, Book 1)

Some stories are too dangerous to tell — and investigative journalist Liliana is about to learn exactly why.

When she follows a trail of corruption deep into the criminal empire known as The Brethren, Liliana doesn't find the exposé that will make her career. She finds Magnus Blake. Cold, ruthless, and terrifyingly in control, Magnus is one of The Brethren's most powerful lords — and he's decided that Liliana's relentless curiosity makes her his most interesting acquisition yet.

Locked away and completely at his mercy, Liliana wages a war on two fronts: against the man who holds her captive, and against herself. Because surviving Magnus means staying sharp, staying angry, staying focused on escape. What it absolutely cannot mean is feeling anything for the man who strips away every defense she has, layer by carefully constructed layer.

*Deviant* is an unapologetically dark captive romance that pulls no punches. This is not a story of a sanitized villain with a soft center — Magnus is dangerous, manipulative, and utterly consuming. The psychological tension between captor and captive builds with suffocating intensity as Liliana's hatred curdles into something far more complicated and far more terrifying. Sanders crafts a pitch-black first installment in The Brethren Lords series that fans of dark, morally complex romance won't be able to put down.

If you thought you knew your limits, Magnus Blake is about to prove you wrong.