Cruel Calculation: A Dark Billionaire Kidnapping & Enemies to Lovers Romance (The Silence Between Us #1)

Raine Wilder


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⚠️ This book contains dark themes, explicit content, and a possessive anti-hero who will burn the world for the heroine. Intended for audiences 18+.

He sees the world in agonizing colors. She is the only silence he has ever known. And now that he has her, he'll never let her go.

Forensic accountant Sloane Mercer made a fatal she broke into the wrong server room. She was hunting a criminal. Instead, she found the Banker of Death.

Kaelen Voss isn't just a tech mogul. He is the ghost who launders money for the global underworld. A genius. A monster. A man living in sensory hell.

Born with violent synesthesia, sound fractures his skull like shattered glass. Lies taste like ash. Chaos looks like neon knives. He built an empire of silence to keep the world out.

Until the moment he pins her against the server rack. His hand closes around her wrist—and the screaming stops. The pain vanishes. The world goes quiet.

He doesn't arrest her. He doesn't kill her.

He traps her in his glass penthouse—a gilded cage locked by his own heartbeat.

Sloane isn't just a prisoner. She is his drug. His cure. His obsession. And Kaelen Voss does not share what is his.

_________________________________________She hates him. He needs her.

But when the truth shatters her world, the line between captor and savior blurs.

The man who raised her—her beloved godfather, Director Silas Crane—isn't a hero. He is the monster who bought Kaelen for $50,000 as a child. Who broke him. Who turned a boy into a weapon.

And Sloane was the arrow aimed at his own victim.

Faced with the ruins of everything she believed, Sloane makes a choice that will change them both

She locks the door. From the inside.

If the law failed her, she'll find justice in the arms of the devil. If her godfather wants war, she'll give him fire. And if loving Kaelen Voss makes her a monster?

So be it.

Let the world scream. In the silence between them, they've found something louder than noise.

Each other.

CRUEL CALCULATION is a dark captive billionaire romance

✔️ Morally gray anti-hero whose only cure is HER touch
✔️ Captive-to-co-conspirator arc (she locks herself IN)
✔️ Penthouse prison locked by his heartbeat (literally)
✔️ Spicy scenes with auditory/sensory kink (he SEES her pleasure in colors)
✔️ NO cheating, NO love triangles, ENDS ON CLIFFHANGER

Touch-Starved Billionaire Forced Proximity "Touch Her and Die" Enemies to Lovers Morally Gray MMC

One-Click now to start the addiction.

📚 THE SILENCE BETWEEN US
Book 1: Cruel Calculation
Book 2: Savage Surrender
Book 3: Lethal Devotion (Guaranteed HEA)
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