Hurt Me Not: Pétale Auction, Book 2

Some prices are paid in more than money—and some debts reach back further than Pearl ever imagined.

When Pearl enters the exclusive, shadow-world auction at Club Pétale, she tells herself it's practical. Finish her degree, secure her future, sell a temporary piece of herself to the highest bidder. Clean and simple. But the moment the winning bidder steps forward, Pearl's carefully constructed plan shatters into something far more dangerous.

It's Emerson. The same girl who made every hallway, every lunch period, every fragile moment of Pearl's high school life feel like a battlefield. Only now, Emerson is polished, powerful, and impossibly wealthy—and she has been waiting for this exact moment for years.

This sapphic dark romance crackles with obsession, old wounds, and the suffocating thrill of being wanted by someone who has already proven they can destroy you. As the contract locks them together, Pearl must navigate the terrifying realization that Emerson's interest was never casual—it was consuming. And somewhere beneath years of hatred and hurt, Pearl's own feelings are far more complicated than she wants to admit.

The tension between them is atmospheric and razor-sharp, threaded with gothic unease that transforms every charged exchange into something that feels equal parts threat and temptation.

In a world where desire and danger live side by side, Pearl has to ask herself the question that could change everything: what does it mean when the person who hurt you most is the only one who truly sees you?