Painted in Blood

Award-winning artist Margarita Wallance thought love was a sanctuary—until Sebastian Kennedy turned it into a gilded prison. The ruthless head of a crime empire, Sebastian brands her skin with his family's wolf crest, locks away her paintings, and watches her every breath through hidden cameras. Trapped, suffocated, and stripped of everything she is, Margarita makes a desperate choice: she fakes her own death. Rescued by a plastic surgeon with his own vendetta against the Kennedys, she undergoes a full facial reconstruction and returns to the world as a woman no one recognizes. But freedom comes at a price—she must walk back into Sebastian's world wearing a stranger's face, helping the FBI dismantle the empire that enslaved her. As Sebastian's obsession pulls him closer to the truth, Margarita must confront the question she never wanted to ask: beneath the monster, is there still a man worth saving?