I put a needle in his skin. I didn’t know I was locking a demon in its cage.

Sable Voss runs The Hollow Needle, a tattoo shop in Brooklyn that smells like dragon’s blood incense and looks like a cabinet of curiosities. She’s built her life around her art—steady hands, sharp lines, and a fierce independence that keeps everyone at arm’s length.

Then Jace Ashworth walks in.

He’s tall, devastatingly beautiful, and wants an ancient sigil tattooed over his ribs—a design from a tradition Sable doesn’t recognize. She takes the job. She shouldn’t have. Because with every late Tuesday session, every hour spent with the hum of the machine and the heat of his skin beneath her hands, she notices things she can’t explain. He heals too fast. His body temperature is wrong. The shadows in her shop move toward him like something hungry.

Jace is something older than the word demon, and the tattoo Sable is inking into his skin is the only thing holding him together.

What begins as professional restraint becomes unbearable tension, then desire that burns hotter than anything human, then something far more dangerous: a love that could reshape the boundaries of reality—or destroy them both.

For fans of Kresley Cole, Katee Robert, and Sarah J. Maas. A standalone dark paranormal romance with gothic atmosphere, scorching tension, and a happily ever after.

Content note: Explicit sexual content, strong language. Intended for readers 18+.