THE FIXER'S PRIZEA Dark Romance of Power and ConsequenceSophie Lark is in the wrong place at the wrong time when she witnesses a violent crime inside a luxury hotel. The man assigned to clean the scene should erase her along with the evidence. Instead, Victor Rook chooses a different solution.He keeps her.Victor is a fixer for a powerful syndicate-a man whose job is to make problems disappear quietly. Protecting Sophie is not mercy. It is containment. Her identity is rewritten, her movements monitored, and her safety defined by rules she never agreed to. Surveillance is framed as protection. Control is justified as necessity.Sophie is told this is what survival looks like.But Sophie is not compliant, and she is not powerless. As days stretch into confinement, she begins to understand the system holding her in place-and the man enforcing it. Victor is precise, disciplined, and dangerously restrained. His attention lingers too long. His control slips into obsession. And the line between protector and captor grows increasingly unstable.As Sophie pushes back against the limits placed on her, she discovers that Victor is not immune to the rules he serves. His loyalty to the syndicate is enforced by punishment. His choices are not his own. And the more he begins to see Sophie as a person instead of a liability, the more fragile his position becomes.The Fixer's Prize is a dark romance that explores power imbalance, surveillance, and the consequences of protection without consent. It is a slow-burn story of control turning into obsession, and a woman who refuses to be reduced to an asset.This book is Book One of a complete two-book story.Sophie and Victor's escape is only the beginning. In Book Two: The Fixer's Reckoning, the past refuses to stay buried. The syndicate closes in, Victor's former identity is weaponized against him, and Sophie steps fully into her own agency. No more running. No more cages disguised as safety. Their story concludes with consequence, confrontation, and choice.ALSO BY AARISH KIANIf you enjoy dark romance that examines power, control, and moral tension, you may also like these stand-alone novels by Aarish Kian: Savage Code Academy - A system built to measure obedience, and a woman who learns to break it.Black Ledger Heir - Corporate power, curated futures, and influence that feels like addiction.The Finishing School of Monsters - Students as assets, control as curriculum, rebellion as survival.The Debtor's Daughter - Contracted hearts, velvet cages, and a woman who bends the system until it screams.