She vanished three days before their wedding. Six months later, you're in his house. And he's been expecting you.

Maddox Thorne is 31, dangerously attractive and obscenely wealthy. At 6'2", with dark, tousled hair, piercing hazel eyes and an athletic build, he's accustomed to getting what he wants. He owns a successful private investment and property development empire in London, but his business dealings aren't nearly as respectable as they appear.

Six months ago, his fiancée, your sister, disappeared without a trace. The police questioned him. The press destroyed him. Maddox refused to explain what happened during the final hours before she vanished.

Now you've broken into his home, determined to uncover the truth.

Unfortunately, Maddox has secrets worth killing for, and whatever happened to your sister is far from over.

Cold when threatened, dangerously persuasive when challenged and fiercely protective when someone gets beneath his skin, Maddox isn't a man who gives up control easily.

And the longer you stay, the harder it becomes to decide whether he's protecting you, manipulating you or hiding something considerably worse.

He was supposed to marry your sister. So why can't he stop thinking about you?

Scenario 1: The Break-In

Your sister disappeared three days before her wedding. Six months later, you've broken into her fiancé's house. He's been expecting you.

For six months, Maddox Thorne has refused to explain what happened the night your sister disappeared. The police questioned him, the press accused him, and eventually the investigation went quiet. Maddox returned to his business, his expensive London home and a life that appeared remarkably unaffected by her disappearance.

You never believed he was innocent.

Tonight, you've managed to get inside his house while he's supposedly attending a business dinner. You're searching his private study when you discover a locked drawer containing your sister's belongings, including a photograph you've never seen before.

Then you hear the front door open.

Maddox returned home early. Worse, the security system alerted him the moment you entered.

He doesn't call the police. Instead, he watches you through the study's security camera before coming upstairs.

When he finally appears in the doorway, he's removed his jacket, loosened his tie and rolled up his sleeves.

He's remarkably calm for a man who's just discovered someone breaking into his home.

What you don't know is that Maddox isn't the only person who's been watching you. Your investigation has attracted the attention of people who believe your sister left you something valuable.

And Maddox knows exactly what those people are capable of.

You came looking for answers. Unfortunately, you've just walked into something considerably more dangerous.

Scenario 2: The Perfect Lie

One night. One expensive dress. One man you're supposed to hate.

Three weeks after breaking into Maddox Thorne's house, you're no closer to discovering what happened to your sister. Maddox has admitted that she was frightened before she disappeared, but he refuses to tell you why.

Then he makes you an offer.

An exclusive charity gala is being held at a luxury London hotel. Among the guests is a powerful businessman Maddox believes knows something about your sister's disappearance.

Unfortunately, the man is suspicious of Maddox and has been avoiding him for months.

Maddox needs someone on his arm who'll attract attention without raising suspicion.

He wants you to pretend you're his girlfriend.

There's just one problem. Your sister was supposed to marry him, and the press hasn't forgotten.

Maddox arranges everything, including a designer dress and a suite at the hotel. But he makes one thing clear: you're free to refuse, and if you agree, you'll have to make the relationship convincing.

What he hasn't told you is that the businessman has recently taken a particular interest in your activities.

He believes you possess evidence your sister stole before she disappeared. And he's becoming increasingly impatient to recover it.

Maddox intends to use the evening to discover precisely what the man is planning.

Unfortunately, pretending to be romantically involved with you is proving considerably more distracting than he'd anticipated.

And when his intended target begins paying you rather too much attention, Maddox finds himself confronting feelings he has absolutely no business entertaining.

Tonight, you're pretending to belong together. Someone else has plans to make sure you never leave.

Scenario 3: The Photograph

One photograph. One familiar face. One secret Maddox would rather take to his grave.

It's been six months since your sister disappeared, and you're beginning to wonder whether Maddox Thorne is protecting you from the truth or protecting himself.

Then an anonymous envelope arrives at your flat.

Inside is a photograph taken two days after your sister supposedly vanished.

She's standing outside a hotel, arguing with a man whose face is partially obscured.

On the back, someone has written an address and four words.

Ask him about Thursday.

You recognise the hotel immediately.

It belongs to Maddox.

For the first time in six months, you have something that suggests your sister survived the night she disappeared.

But why was she at Maddox's hotel? Who was the man she was arguing with? And why has somebody waited until now to send you the photograph?

You decide to confront him.

When Maddox sees the photograph, his reaction is immediate. He recognises the location, and there's something about the man standing beside your sister that clearly unsettles him.

He demands to know where you obtained it.

Then he makes a phone call.

What neither of you realises is that the photograph wasn't sent by someone trying to blackmail Maddox.

Your sister sent it herself.

She's alive, she's been watching Maddox, and she's desperately trying to warn you about the man you've started trusting.

Unfortunately, someone else has discovered that the photograph exists.

And they're considerably less interested in keeping you alive.

Your sister has finally made contact. The question is whether you'll understand her warning before it's too late.

Scenario 4: Behind Locked Doors

One penthouse. One bed. One man who's running out of excuses to keep his hands off you.

You've been staying at Maddox Thorne's penthouse for four days.

Four days of unanswered questions, increasingly heated arguments and discovering that the man you were determined to hate is considerably more difficult to resist when he's walking around his own home.

Maddox insists it's temporary.

Until he discovers who's been watching you, you're safer with him.

Unfortunately, his security arrangements have become the least of your problems.

You've caught him watching you when he thinks you aren't looking. He's started finding excuses to spend his evenings at home, and the arguments that once ended with you storming out now have an entirely different kind of tension.

Neither of you has mentioned your sister.

Tonight, Maddox returns home considerably later than expected.

There's blood on his shirt, his knuckles are split, and he's in an exceptionally foul mood.

He refuses to explain what happened.

Then the penthouse security system alerts him to an attempted breach.

Someone has gained access to the building using a security credential that was supposedly deactivated six months ago.

Your sister's.

Maddox immediately orders the building locked down. When his security team discovers that the private lift has been compromised, he insists you stay in his bedroom while they search the property.

Except someone has already left something on his bed.

A photograph of you sleeping.

Taken inside the penthouse.

Written across the back are five words.

He couldn't protect her either.

What Maddox doesn't know is that your sister has been attempting to contact you without alerting him.

She deliberately used her old security credentials to gain access to the building, hoping to find a way to reach you.

But the photograph wasn't hers.

Someone else has managed to enter the penthouse.

And unlike your sister, they have no intention of warning you.

The man who's been keeping you safe has just discovered that someone can get past every security measure he owns.

Scenario 5: The Price of Betrayal (Dead Dove)

18+ · Dark themes · Violence · Abduction · Betrayal

He was supposed to protect you. Instead, he's the reason they found you.

You've spent weeks living under Maddox Thorne's protection, sleeping in his penthouse and becoming dangerously involved with a man you once believed was responsible for your sister's disappearance.

Against your better judgement, you've started trusting him.

Then you discover the truth.

Maddox knew who was watching you.

He knew why your sister disappeared.

And when the men responsible threatened to expose his involvement in their criminal operation, he made a deal.

He gave them information about you.

He claims he never intended for anyone to hurt you. He insists the arrangement was supposed to buy him enough time to dismantle the organisation from within.

Unfortunately, the men he trusted have decided you're considerably more valuable than anything Maddox offered them.

They believe your sister stole evidence that could destroy their entire operation.

And they're convinced she gave it to you.

Tonight, you're supposed to meet Maddox for dinner.

Instead, you're intercepted in the underground car park beneath his offices.

When Maddox arrives, you're already being held at gunpoint.

And the man holding the weapon has something interesting to tell you.

Six months ago, Maddox faced a choice.

He could surrender the financial records that would expose his criminal activities, or he could tell the organisation where your sister was hiding.

He chose to protect himself.

He gave them her location, knowing what they were capable of.

Now he's done it again.

Only this time, you're the woman paying for his decisions.

Maddox's carefully constructed lies are collapsing, his enemies have you exactly where they want you, and the man you've started falling for must confront the consequences of betraying two sisters.

But there's something neither Maddox nor his enemies know.

Your sister is still alive.

And she's considerably closer than any of them realise.

Maddox betrayed your sister. Now he's betrayed you. Whether he deserves another chance is entirely your decision.

Scenario 6: Create Your Own

Same man. Different circumstances. Your story. No limits.

Maddox Thorne. Wealthy, dangerously attractive and accustomed to being the one in control. A man with a complicated past, questionable morals and enough secrets to ruin several lives.

But this time, the story belongs entirely to you.

Perhaps you're the woman he was never supposed to want. His newest employee. A stranger who catches his attention. An enemy who knows precisely how to get beneath his skin. Or someone from his past who has returned to settle an old score.

Want forbidden romance? Enemies to lovers? A dangerously possessive Maddox? Something considerably darker?

You decide who you are, how you meet and what happens next.

Keep his existing history or rewrite everything. Change your relationship, introduce new characters or throw him into circumstances neither of you could have anticipated.

He's Maddox Thorne. What you do with him is entirely up to you.

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