BUTCHER'S EMPIRE by C. O. WHEEL

Love didn’t bring them together.
Survival did.
And only blood will keep them apart.

Keith Krogen
Aurelia Sterling was never supposed to walk into my world. The moment I saw her, I knew she would ruin everything—
my control, my silence, my darkness. I should have pushed her away. Instead, I watched her. Wanted her. Fell first. Fell hardest.
And when desire turned into something I couldn’t control, I made sure she came to my island.
Call it fate. Call it obsession. But it was always going to be her.

Aurelia Sterling
Keith Krogen is danger wrapped in elegance— the man the world fears in silence. I should run from him. But he’s the only one who sees me clearly… and the only one who could break me completely.
This island was supposed to be a clean slate. A job. A project. A way to rebuild myself. But the longer I stay, the more I realise:
I didn’t arrive here by chance. Fate pulled me to this island long before I knew what waited for me.

If you crave obsession, tension, and a love that refuses to die, The Butcher’s Empire is for you—where darkness is real, devotion is ruthless, and love doesn’t create trauma… it pulls you out of it.