Anatomy of Ruin (Anatomy After Dark #1)

RUBY

I remember the ice in his gaze at the cafe, a predator hidden in a custom suit,

but I never expected to see him again in the dark.

My brother sold me to pay his debts.

Andrei Ignatov bought me.

The Bratva king is immaculate suits, ice-cold control, and the kind of violence that makes powerful men beg.

I should want nothing from the man who claimed me in a room where human lives had price tags.

Instead, every filthy touch makes escape feel less important than finding out exactly how far his obsession goes.

His world is built on blood, obedience, and betrayal. Someone wants his throne badly enough to start a war, and I’m trapped at the center of it with a man who treats possession like a promise.

I was supposed to be another thing men could use.

Andrei is about to teach them how expensive touching what belongs to him can become.

ANDREI

I noticed Ruby before I knew her name.

Finding her again among the depraved elite selling flesh for entertainment should have been coincidence. Buying her should have been strategy.

It was neither.

She looks at me without enough fear, fights me with a mouth made for sin, and crawls beneath my skin with every act of defiance. I have spent years building an empire through discipline and blood. One woman makes control feel dangerously overrated.

My enemies have mistaken obsession for weakness.

They’ll understand the difference once I’ve buried every traitor between Ruby and my throne.

This is the first book in the Anatomy After Dark Series. Reading order: Anatomy of Ruin, Anatomy of Fear, Anatomy of Power.