Until the End…
Set in the hills of coastal Italy, RUIN follows Claire Bailey—a young woman desperate for a win as her family unravels, her career teeters on the edge, and she recovers from heartbreak. Claire’s walls are up, and her eye is on the prize as she competes for an exclusive distribution deal with Vigneto Riserva del Regale.
After a botched business dinner, she is drawn into the orbit of the enigmatic Arik Medici, who conceals dangerous secrets and an obsession behind old-world charm. Arik continuously walks the line between possession and protection, and more so, the illusion of choice versus inevitability.
When Claire finally witnesses Arik’s monstrous side, the revelation is a payoff for the tension and suspicion woven throughout the first half of the story. What follows delivers a cascade of revelations about Arik’s true identity, the fate of the missing women who have disappeared from Vigneto Riserva del Regale, cursed islands with ancient vampires, and why Claire was really sent to Italy in the first place; recontextualizing everything that came before and rewarding attentive readers with jaw-dropping twists.
RUIN is just the beginning…
REVERENCE (Book Two) Scheduled Release: January 2027
REIGN (Book Three) Scheduled Release: May 2027
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She came to Italy for a deal. He arranged the deal to get her.
What she thought was a career-saving business trip to the Calabrian coast turns out to be something far more deliberate — engineered by a man she hasn't met yet, set in motion years before she ever boarded the plane.
Arik Medici has lived for centuries in the shadows of the region his family was cursed to protect. Charming, controlled, and dangerously patient, he has been waiting for Claire since the night he first caught her scent seven years ago.
He let her live her life. He waited. And now she's finally here.
As bodies surface and the truth closes in, Claire begins to understand that the canceled flights, the closed roads, the extended hotel stay — none of it was a coincidence. Neither was falling in love with him.
But Arik is not a man. And love, for something like him, looks a lot like possession.
Author's Note: For Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings (CW/TW), please check the author's website.
Content Warnings
RUIN contains mature and potentially distressing themes, including graphic violence and gore (murder, physical assault, and bodily harm), explicit sexual content and power dynamics, attempted sexual assault, terminal illness of a parent, death and grief, kidnapping and captivity, supernatural horror (vampirism and transformation), mental health struggles, medical trauma, and elements of stalking, possessiveness, obsessive behavior, and emotional coercion.
Reader discretion is advised. Your mental health matters.
Where to Buy RUIN
ISBN 9798997043902
As an indie author, I highly recommend you call or visit your local independent bookstore to place an order directly or request that they carry RUIN in-store. RUIN is available through the IngramSpark Catalog, and I also accept wholesale inquiries on my website.
Additionally, you can request that your local public library stock RUIN via Libby/IngramSpark.
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