Ruin Me: Defiant Survivor Series – Book 1

BOOK 1: RUIN ME A Dark RomanceThree years of training. One mission: seduce and kill the monster who massacred my family.I walk through Cristián Córdoba’s gates with a knife hidden against my thigh and vengeance burning in my veins. He’s the cartel heir who destroyed everything I loved. The beautiful, brutal man who made me an orphan at sixteen.My plan is simple: get close, earn his trust, put a bullet through his heart.But the moment those amber eyes lock on mine, I know I’ve made a fatal mistake.He’s been waiting for me.Every move I make, he’s three steps ahead. Every assassination attempt, he counters with psychological warfare that leaves me breathless and unraveling. He claims me in front of the entire cartel using ancient laws I don’t understand. He gives me access to his vulnerabilities, then punishes me when I don’t exploit them.He’s playing a game I can’t win, and with every touch, every whispered threat, every night in his bed, the line between mission and desire disintegrates.I came here to destroy him. Instead, he’s destroying me—piece by piece, kiss by kiss, truth by devastating truth.When he pins me against the wall and growls that I’m his, I tell myself I’m playing a role. When I save his life instead of taking it, I tell myself it’s strategy. When I beg for his touch in the darkness, I tell myself I still hate him.I’m lying.Then he whispers the words that detonate my entire world:”I killed them so you’d come to me.”Now I’m standing at the edge of an impossible choice: complete my mission and die, or surrender to the monster who orchestrated everything—including my obsession with him.He’s watching me with those predator eyes, waiting for me to decide.The knife is at his throat. My finger is on the trigger. And God help me, I can’t pull it.Because somewhere between vengeance and obsession, I fell.And in his world, falling means you’re already his.RUIN ME is Book 1 in the DEFIANT SURVIVOR trilogy—a dark romance series featuring an enemies-to-lovers dynamic, morally gray characters, psychological warfare, explicit sexual content, and an obsessive alpha hero who will burn the world down to keep her. This is not a standalone. The story continues in Book 2: WRECK ME.Content Warning: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic violence, dark themes, psychological manipulation, and morally complex protagonists. Intended for mature readers 18+.He didn’t just kill my family. He created me. And now I’m his perfect ruin.