“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
“A masterpiece of psychological warfare and dark romance. I couldn’t put it down!” — Reader Review “Bennett Croft is the ultimate morally gray anti-hero. Toxic, brilliant, and completely addictive.” — Reader Review
I paint lies for a living.
For ten years, I’ve hidden in the shadows of Brooklyn, forging classical masterpieces to pay off my dead father’s debt to the mob. I thought I knew exactly how to survive the underground.
Then the Liquidator bought my contract.
Bennett Croft is a billionaire ghost. He doesn’t break legs; he buys souls. And he just bought mine. He didn’t lock me in a basement—he trapped me in a sterile, bulletproof penthouse, demanding the impossible: forge a lost Caravaggio in thirty days, or he hands me back to the Bratva executioners waiting outside.
He thinks I am just another asset to manage. A variable to control.
But Bennett is about to learn that I am not a masterpiece meant to be preserved in a glass box. I am the spark that will burn his perfectly ordered world to the ground.
If the toxic chemicals don’t kill me first, the terrifying, consuming heat between us just might.
Author’s Note: FRAME OF RUIN is a dark, psychological mafia romance intended for mature readers (18+). It features a borderline villainous hero, high-stakes art forgery, forced proximity, and intense power struggles. Please read the content warnings inside.
