An Iris for the Blackwoods: Paperback

Iris Vesper was never a daughter; she was a commodity. In the shadowed spires of Abaddon’s Reach, the women of the elite are bred for a binary existence: to be playthings or incubators. In this cold, 18th-century landscape, Iris’s girlhood was merely a curriculum of absolute submission. By the time she was hammered onto the auction block, she had been molded into the perfect, silent servant; a masterpiece of obedience in a world that stifled the very idea of love.

Her buyers were the Blackwood brothers. Infamous and obscenely wealthy, they were said to have carved their path to power through their own father’s ribs. Yet, while the city recoils from them as monsters, Iris discovers a terrifying novelty within their estate: tenderness. Beneath the weight of their protection, her fear begins to warp into a dangerous, tangled loyalty and perhaps something even more treacherous, affection.

But in the Reach, peace is a haunting illusion. The brothers’ unorthodox devotion to Iris ignites hushed whispers, staining the Blackwood name. Iris has finally found a home, but it threatens to become the instrument of her captor's ruin. In Abaddon's Reach, even the most feared men cannot buy a quiet life.

Now, Iris faces a devasting choice; flee into the night and certain death to clear their name or stay and watch the only men she has ever loved to be dismantled by the city's venomous whispers.