Silent Bargain

A secret buried in blood. A silent bargain that will cost her everything. Lirien is a grieving historian, haunted by the tableau of slaughter that claimed her family. The police see a robbery; she sees a message written in blood. When mysterious notes appear, promising the forbidden truth she craves, she's drawn into a shadowy game where the only rule is that nothing is what it seems. Her guide into the darkness is Vren, a man whose silence is a weapon and whose touch is a tantalizing mix of pleasure and pain.
He offers her not comfort, but a shameless education in power, control, and the darkest corners of human desire. To learn his secrets, she must become his apprentice, his captive, his student in a wild and scandalous world of BDSM and psychological warfare. But as the lessons become more intimate and the lines between captor and captive blur, Lirien must confront a chilling, agonizing truth. Is the man teaching her to be fearless the very monster she's been hunting?