Two obsessed artists, one with a dark past and one really naive and young. Victor wants revenge, but instead he becomes the prisoner of his unhinged obsession.
From the blurb:
- Victor -
Sevastyan is the most beautiful man I have ever seen.
He is also a fraud. No one who looks like the man in his self-portraits would ever choose to live as a recluse. It simply makes no sense.
And I will expose his lies. Because Sevastyan ruined my life with a single exhibition.
Over the years, my loathing has turned into poison coursing through my veins and helped fill my sketchbooks with violent fantasies fixated on one man, who doesn’t even know I exist.
Well, he’ll find out when I break into his home and prove to the world his beauty isn’t real, humiliating him once and for all.
What I don’t expect is that Sevastyan is ready for me. Amused, unafraid, the monster behind the masterpieces traps me before I get to fire a single bullet.
He sees me for the obsessive little freak I am and tells me I’ll never leave. That I will be his toy, his muse, his entertainment, his distraction from years of isolation.
I thought I was the danger.
I was so, so wrong.
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“Portrait of a Killer” is a Dark M/M Romance where a failed artist breaks into the home of the famous painter who ruined his career. He might be an ugly duckling, but soon he becomes his enemy’s prisoner, obsession, and unexpected muse.
Dive in to find out how captivity becomes intimacy, and morally gray desire rooted in power imbalance turns into a twisted romance where fear and devotion blur beyond recognition.
Warnings: Violence, abduction, Stockholm syndrome
SNik's review:
Part of a multi-author series (In the Spotlight). Captor/captive. Dubcon. Age gap. Dual POV. Heed content warnings.
Victor may be slightly obsessed with getting revenge on the reclusive painter Sevastyan, and he certainly doesn’t expect to have the tables turned on him so decidedly. At first Sevastyan believes Victor to be an assassin but realizes it's not his past life Victor is there about, and he decides maybe keeping the intriguing young man will help with his loneliness.
As hinted at in the blurb, this story has Victor falling down a dark rabbit hole from which he cannot escape, with fear, lust and uncertainty his constant companions. Sevastyan is difficult to empathize with for most of the story, and the dynamic between him and Victor is not normal or healthy, but in their bubble it doesn’t really matter. This was a disturbing and gripping read, and not really a romance due to the power imbalance, but Sevastyn and Victor find something together that works for them.
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