Baron "Vicious" Spencer, a brilliant but ruthless lawyer, is a haunting figure in Emilia LeBlanc's life. Their tumultuous history began in high school, where Emilia's mother worked on his family's estate. Vicious, a master manipulator and tormentor, discovered Emilia's deepest secret and cruelly drove her out of town, harboring a conflicted mix of hatred and desire for her. A decade later, Vicious tracks Emilia to New York, undeterred by their painful past or her lingering resentment. To him, Emilia, an artist he once dismissed as "off-limits" and "evasive as a cherry blossom," is now a prize he refuses to lose. Emilia recognizes his toxicity, the dangerous storm he represents, yet the undeniable, potent chemistry between them threatens to consume her. "Vicious" is a standalone dark romance exploring obsessive love, revenge, and the blurred lines between torment and passion, as an unapologetic anti-hero stops at nothing to claim the woman who once breached his carefully guarded world.
Critical Reception
"Vicious is widely regarded as a seminal and intensely popular entry in the dark romance genre, celebrated for its complex anti-hero and deeply angsty, passionate narrative."