My Sweet Poison: A Gothic Enemies to Lovers Dark Romance

Some men want justice. Pierce Worthington wants something far more dangerous.

When his brother Jameson dies in a scandalous wreck, Pierce doesn't grieve — he hunts. And Madison Hastings, a quiet bookshop owner newly settled in the coastal Virginia town of Cliffs End, makes a perfectly convenient target. She dated Jameson once, briefly, foolishly. That's enough. One phone call later, she's facing a murder charge she didn't earn.

But a prison cell isn't enough for Pierce. A Worthington never settles for half measures.

He wants her somewhere he can watch her suffer. Somewhere isolated, controlled, inescapable. He wants her at Ravenscroft Estate — his family's crumbling ancestral manor perched on the edge of a sheer Atlantic cliff, all sealed wings, whispering corridors, and secrets buried deeper than the rocks below.

What Pierce doesn't expect is Madison refusing to break. She pushes back against every cold, calculated move he makes, matching his cruelty with a stubborn fire that slowly shifts something dangerous inside him. And as the shadows of Ravenscroft begin to stir — revealing secrets neither of them anticipated — the line between captor and prisoner starts to blur in ways that terrify them both.

This dark gothic romance is laced with obsession, atmospheric dread, and a