Numbers Never Lie
By Unsprouted Bean
HE BUILT A CAGE. SHE TAUGHT HIM HOW TO BEG. Dr. Ambrose Kestrel has three ironclad rules: 1. Never touch a patient. 2. Never let anyone see him sleep. 3. Never forget who holds the key. Until Dahlia arrives. She enters his asylum smelling of fire and blood, accused of murdering her husband in a brutal manner she claims not to remember. She is fragile, submissive, and completely dependent on the sound of his voice. She is the most beautiful creature he has ever broken. But Dahlia isn't shattered. She's calculating. Behind those clear, vacant eyes lies a mind sharp enough to bleed him dry. She studies his every habit, dissects his dark past, and weaponizes his own hypnotic trigger words against him. Through stolen kisses and command phrases whispered in the dark, the line between captor and prisoner completely collapses. He thinks he’s rewiring her mind. In reality, she’s the one programming his obsession. In a world built on stolen millions and lethal secrets, love is just another form of brainwashing. And when the music stops inside the Glass Garden, only one of them will hold the chain. A dark, scorching novel of psychological romance where power is the ultimate aphrodisiac—and trust is a death sentence. * Genre: Psychological Thriller / Dark Romance * Setting: An elite psychiatric hospital, New York, Winter
