The Auction

The Auction

Author: Sadie Kincaid

Genre: Dark Romance / Mafia Romance / Gothic Romance

Book Rating: ⭐ 9/10

Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 5/5

Description

For as long as she can remember, the narrator’s life has never truly belonged to her.

After the death of her parents, she was taken in by her powerful grandfather with a promise already made on her behalf—to be delivered to the Brotherhood on her twenty-first birthday as payment for her parents’ alleged sins. Raised in isolation and carefully controlled, she was prepared for a single purpose: to be sold to the highest bidder.

That promise becomes reality at the auction.

But the man who buys her isn’t who anyone expected.

Lincoln Knight is a reclusive billionaire rumored to be more dangerous than the very criminals who arranged the sale. Hidden behind a mask and surrounded by whispers of violence and mystery, he takes her deep into the woods to his crumbling mansion—where she becomes his prisoner.

Or so it seems.

At first, escape is her only goal. Lincoln is cold, powerful, and completely unpredictable. But the longer she remains in his world, the more she realizes that nothing is as simple as she believed.

Because Lincoln may not be the monster everyone claims he is.

And the deeper she looks into his secrets, the more she begins to question the truth about her own past—and the lies she’s been raised to believe.

In a world of power, deception, and dangerous attraction, the pawn who was meant to be sacrificed may instead rise to become something far more powerful.

Tropes / Mood

Dark mafia romance • Beauty and the Beast retelling • masked hero • morally gray MMC • captive romance • gothic atmosphere • slow burn tension • powerful heroine

Series Reading Order (Wages of Sin)

1. The Auction

2. The Release

3. The Redemption