CRUEL EDUCATION
Power, servitude, revenge — and the love that survives all three.
The Series
Merciless
Kit Webb won a full scholarship to Blackthorne College. The catch was buried deep in the pages: one year of servitude to founding family heir Rafe Ashford.
He's beautiful and dangerous. She's brilliant and trapped. The dynamic is simple: he controls everything. Her time, her body, her dignity. Public humiliations filmed and shared. Private degradations no one sees. All while she maintains top marks in engineering — because that's what he wants.
The genius who kneels. The prodigy who scrubs floors. Intelligence made subordinate to power.
Kit can endure cruelty. What she can't endure is her own response when he touches her gently, when his praise feels genuine, when proximity creates confusion she can't afford.
She hates him. She wants him. Both are true.
When Rafe's desperation turns her servitude into something darker, Kit faces an impossible choice. She picks survival.
Ruthless
Every day, Rafe Ashford understands a little more. About powerlessness. About survival. About what it means to lose everything.
I should feel victorious. Instead, I feel complicated.
Because my body still wants him. And watching him break is breaking something in me too.
What happens when revenge stops feeling like revenge?
I don't have the answer. But I'm going to keep punishing him until I figure it out.
Some love stories are written in scars.