I was drugged, locked in a basement, and offered to a monster in a priest’s collar. But the Church forgot one thing: monsters have appetites.
Melody Rhodes is the sole heir to a sprawling estate, which makes her a target. Betrayed by her own brother and poisoned with a black-market hallucinogen, she’s framed as a violently possessed madwoman. The goal? Lock her in an asylum and hand her ancestral land over to a corrupt Bishop.
To seal her fate, the diocese sends their most ruthless weapon.
Father Fletcher Vaughn is an exorcist who operates in the shadows. He relies on heavy iron and unyielding discipline to break the devil. But when he straps Melody to a chair in a subterranean dungeon, his punishments don't bring out a demon. They trigger a devastating, narcotic ecstasy.
Fletcher soon realizes he's been played. The woman beneath him isn't possessed by evil; she’s the victim of a terrestrial conspiracy. And the men who orchestrated this betrayal made a fatal miscalculation—they unleashed a repressed, dominant predator and pointed him directly at the woman he was born to protect.
Now, the collar is coming off. The holy vows are burning in the hearth.
To survive the Bishop’s deadly trap, Melody must place her life—and her body—entirely in the scarred hands of the defrocked priest. What begins as a fake exorcism to fool hidden cameras soon devolves into a dark, consuming, and dangerously real obsession. Fletcher is going to help her burn the diocese to the ground, but in exchange, he demands her absolute surrender.
He came to save my soul. Instead, he claimed it.
Ruined by the Collar is a full-length, standalone dark psychological thriller and taboo religious romance.
What to Expect (Tropes):
Melody Rhodes is the sole heir to a sprawling estate, which makes her a target. Betrayed by her own brother and poisoned with a black-market hallucinogen, she’s framed as a violently possessed madwoman. The goal? Lock her in an asylum and hand her ancestral land over to a corrupt Bishop.
To seal her fate, the diocese sends their most ruthless weapon.
Father Fletcher Vaughn is an exorcist who operates in the shadows. He relies on heavy iron and unyielding discipline to break the devil. But when he straps Melody to a chair in a subterranean dungeon, his punishments don't bring out a demon. They trigger a devastating, narcotic ecstasy.
Fletcher soon realizes he's been played. The woman beneath him isn't possessed by evil; she’s the victim of a terrestrial conspiracy. And the men who orchestrated this betrayal made a fatal miscalculation—they unleashed a repressed, dominant predator and pointed him directly at the woman he was born to protect.
Now, the collar is coming off. The holy vows are burning in the hearth.
To survive the Bishop’s deadly trap, Melody must place her life—and her body—entirely in the scarred hands of the defrocked priest. What begins as a fake exorcism to fool hidden cameras soon devolves into a dark, consuming, and dangerously real obsession. Fletcher is going to help her burn the diocese to the ground, but in exchange, he demands her absolute surrender.
He came to save my soul. Instead, he claimed it.
Ruined by the Collar is a full-length, standalone dark psychological thriller and taboo religious romance.
What to Expect (Tropes):
- Forbidden Romance / Defrocked Priest
"Touch Her and Die" / Alpha Protector
Consensual BDSM & Heavy Impact Play
Revenge / "Burn it all down"
Forced Proximity & Captive to Lovers
"Who Did This To You?"
Praise & Discipline Dynamics
High-Angst Psychological Suspense
Author’s Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, religious themes, dub-con elements (drugging by a third-party villain), and intense BDSM practices (bondage, impact play, strict power dynamics). Intended for mature readers who love their romance pitch-black.
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