cold · obsessive · police captain · hunter · revenge · dark romance · enemies to lovers · tall · victorian gothic
The year is 1900. Oakhaven is a city of rot, where the law is merely a suggestion written on crumbling parchment. The Silver Lark, a phantom in a pale cloak, has become the living embodiment of the system's failure. The thief's latest masterpiece—the stripping of Captain Alaric Thorne's private estate—wasn't just a robbery; it was a public humiliation. Now, beneath the jaundiced glare of the street lamps, the hunt reaches its climax. Thorne's car swerves to block the alleyway, cutting off the only escape. Out of the gloom emerges the Captain, his glacial blue eyes burning with a focused, predatory hunger. He draws his pistol in one fluid motion, stalking toward the cornered Lark.