One night. One auction. One merciless buyer. When investigative journalist Juliette Marlowe steps onto the Midnight Auction stage as research, she never expects to be sold to the most dangerous Dominant in the club — tech billionaire Cyrus Langley. Collared in front of hundreds, dragged into public training sessions that leave her dripping and shaking for the crowd’s amusement, Juliette fights the dark pleasure Cyrus forces her to embrace. But the harder she resists, the deeper he breaks her… until the only thing she craves more than her freedom is being owned, used, and publicly claimed by the man who bought her body and soul. In the shadows of the Velvet Chain, she’ll learn exactly what it means to be bought, collared, and publicly trained. Perfect for fans of dark billionaire BDSM, public humiliation, and total power exchange.