The Lord of Misrule: Rapture (The Paranormal World, #4)
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She went in with her eyes open. The Saturnalia Festival opened them wider.
Alex Donati is missing. The Goodfellow twins return to find their safe house ransacked, their surveillance boards destroyed—and the journalist who knows too much about Venice's oldest supernatural secret in the hands of Sebastian Assante.
The new head of the yokai Council didn't kidnap her to silence her.
He invited her to the festival.
Assante's private island is a world apart from the tourist Venice glittering across the lagoon—a place of baroque excess and ancient hunger, where masked revelers shed every inhibition alongside their identities. He offers Alex a deal: attend the Saturnalia as his companion and witness everything she came to Venice to expose. The danger is obvious. So is the attraction. And Alex has never been able to resist either.
While Robin and Cody interrogate Assante's accountant in the ruins of a plague island and race toward the festival with blood on their hands, Alex moves deeper into the cult's inner circle—dazzled by Venetian glass, shadowed puppet shows designed to unravel every last restraint, and the impossible pull of a man who is not even remotely human.
She's smart enough to know she's being seduced. She's not smart enough to stop it.
The masks are coming off at midnight. What's underneath will change everything.
For readers who crave: paranormal romance with dark edges • ancient cult mysteries • Venetian Gothic atmosphere • forbidden attraction • shapeshifter romance • investigative heroine • supernatural suspense • masquerade intrigue • slow-burn seduction turned dangerous
Rapture is part four of the five-part Lord of Misrule serial—where the seduction and the danger are now indistinguishable from each other.