Canvas of Ash

I stole his coffee. He decided that made me his.Nia Carter just wants to finish her art degree, keep her studio corner stocked with paint, and survive senior year without any more drama than usual. Then a stranger's order gets mixed up with hers inside a downtown coffee shop-and three weeks later, he's the reason gunmen are chasing her through an alley.Jae-won Choi doesn't do relationships. He doesn't do soft. He runs the American arm of an empire his family built on fear, and the last thing he needs is a coffee thief with paint under her nails and a mouth that won't quit talking back-except now his enemies think she's his, which means she's not safe anywhere he isn't.He says it's protection. It feels like a cage.But cages have a way of becoming something else when the man guarding you starts building you an art studio, learning your coffee order by heart, and looking at you like you're the only thing in his world he hasn't figured out how to control.CANVAS OF ASH is a slow-burn, forced-proximity dark mafia romance with a possessive hero, a heroine who refuses to be owned, and a cliffhanger ending that continues in Book Two, Canvas of Embers.Content notes: violence, attempted sexual assault (non-graphic), kidnapping, family/organized crime cruelty, explicit content 18+