Prologue

Once upon a time a fair maiden who was considered a piano virtuoso believed in fairytales, the kind with big, brave, and dominating knights capable of riding their strong steeds toward the damsels in desperate need of their protection. Of course, there was one girl in particular I was most interested in, the one living in a gilded cage with a brutal father in control of every aspect of her life.

That girl was like Rapunzel, captured in a beautiful castle high on a hill, waiting for her prince with a hopeful heart. She longed for him to steal her away from the prison she'd been locked in since childhood, taking her to a dream resort where the sun always seemed to shine, the sand was soft between her toes, and the turquoise water was soothing to her broken body.

She knew if she found the man of her dreams, they would fall madly in love and live happily ever after.

But as with all hopes and dreams, the sinful thoughts of being wrapped in heated moments of passion were replaced with darker ones.

Ones depicting acts of kink so sadistic that without her strong will, she would be broken.

When she believed herself to be waking from a horrible dream and nothing more, she quickly learned there was no such thing as a sweet, honorable knight or a land where no harm would come to her.

There was only the reality of a life she'd been born into.

She quickly learned there were worse prisons than the gilded cage she'd been placed in. After that, the fair maiden lost her innocence.

And in turn her mind as well.

To the darkness.

His darkness…