Silent Flames (Dark & Silent Night #4)
Cate C. Wells
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· 111 ratings · 304 pages · Published: 27 Dec 2025
I thought my husband loved me—until I walked in on his Director of Finance riding him like a cowgirl.
Adrian and I never made sense on paper. When we met, I was working for minimum wage. No family. No degree. He was a billionaire Maddox brother, twelve years older than me and a titan of Wall Street.
I thought it had to be love. Why else would a man like him be with me?
Turns out, our marriage has always been a transaction. An easy life for me, a perfect wife for him. And if I want to keep my lifestyle—and my two beautiful babies—I need to fall in line.
There are just two small problems.
I’m not the perfect woman he thinks I am.
And I was right—my husband does love me. He just doesn’t realize it until he burns his own world down.
Silent Flames is the fourth and final book in the Dark & Silent Night series—dark, emotional romances about the Maddox brothers that explore the razor-thin line between hero and villain.
❤️ Cheating (on page)
🖤 Age gap
❤️ Cold-hearted hero
🖤 Marriage-in-trouble
❤️ Betrayal/grovel
🖤 Alphahole
🖤 OW drama
❤️ Reconciliation
Read the other novellas in the Dark & Silent Night series, following the lives of the Maddox brothers, written by my incredible friends:
🖤 Silent Vow by Maya Alden
🖤 Veiled Silence by Eve Black
🖤 Silent Promises by Christine Michelle
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Tagged as:
- cheating 20
- contemporary 18
- angst 18
- other man/woman 17
- m-f romance 16
- class difference 16
- rich hero 16
- betrayal 15
- ceo/tycoon hero 15
- age gap 14
- tortured heroine 13
- poor heroine 13
- second chances 11
- grumpy/cold hero 11
- hurt/comfort 10
- working class heroine 10
- cruel hero/bully 9
- tortured hero 8
- marriage of convenience 7
- good grovel 7
- sassy heroine 7
- competent heroine 4
- forced proximity 3
- breeding 3
- in his 30s 2
- christmas 1
- early 20s fmc 1
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- content warnings
- mental illness 16
- mental trauma 14
- past child neglect 13
- suicide / ideation 13
- past child abuse 13
- child sexual abuse 11
- self harm 9
- misogyny 7
- body betrayal 6
- geography
- connecticut 10
- new york state 9
- usa 7
- north america 6
- Format
- dual pov 9
- first person pov 8
- interconnected standalone 2
- standalone 1
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The 'Dark & Silent Night' series
3.68 · 194 ratings
new-york-state · past-child-abuse · north-america · dual-pov · super rich hero · usa · m-f · betrayal · contemporary · career professional · first-person-pov · tortured heroine · past-child-neglect · tycoon · angst · tortured hero · mafia · competent heroine · cold hero · poor heroine
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