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Love stories with teeth.
Dangerous men who would burn the world to protect what’s theirs. Brilliant women who refuse to break. Welcome to the Obsidian world of dark billionaire romance.
“No one escapes without scars… or love.”
His Reckoning · Gideon & Clara
A note from
Freya
I write for readers who want the intensity of Master/slave and D/s dynamics on the page, not hinted at from the next room.
In the Obsidian Club — across His Obsession and His Reckoning — submission is never weak and never shameful. It’s a decision my heroines make on purpose. Handing over control to a man who has earned that trust is the bravest thing they do, and it’s where they find out what they’re actually made of.
If you want romance that treats power exchange as strength instead of a problem to fix, you’re in the right place. The free prequel will introduce you to the Club. Both series are waiting after that.
— Freya Locke
Where danger dances with desire
Freya Locke writes dangerous love stories filled with tortured heroes, brilliant heroines, and tension you can cut with a combat knife. Happily ever afters aren’t handed out in her worlds — they’re earned through fire, heartbreak, and grit.
For You
For the woman who’s tired of
being the strong one
You hold it all together. You make every decision, carry every weight, keep everyone standing. You’re the one they lean on — always. What if, just for a few hundred pages, you didn’t have to be?
Come be wanted like an obsession. Let a dangerous man hold the weight — and you — for a while.
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His Obsession
They don’t chase. They orchestrate.
Six billionaires. Six obsessions they’ve been cultivating for years. Six women who are about to discover that their worst day was carefully engineered by the man offering to save them.
Welcome to the Obsidian Club—where the most powerful men in the world don’t do romance. They do ownership. Contracts signed in desperation. Collars locked with a click. And a protocol designed to make you crave the monster who dismantled your life.
But these women aren’t victims.
They negotiate from their knees. They fight for every inch. And when they finally choose to surrender? It destroys everything these men thought they wanted.
Morally black billionaires. Captive heroines who bite back. Obsessive love that burns everything down. HEA guaranteed—but you’ll earn it through fire.
This series contains: forced proximity, dubious consent evolving to enthusiastic consent, power exchange, possessive/obsessive heroes, contract romance, kneeling & collaring, “touch her and die” energy, and heroines who make these monsters WORK for their surrender.
Six dark standalones. Read in order for the full descent, or start anywhere.
The Series
His Reckoning
Steamy standalone billionaire romances from inside The Obsidian Club — one couple, one reckoning at a time.
Perfect For You If…
You’ve been waiting for exactly this
You want a hero who’s ruthless with the world and utterly obsessed with you.
You crave power dynamics that spark, build, and finally detonate.
You love a heroine who refuses to be handled — until she decides she wants to be.
You’re done with soft. You want dangerous, possessive, and all-consuming.
You need slow-burn tension wound so tight it has to snap.
You want it dark — with a hard-won, no-cheating happily ever after.
About the Author
Meet Freya Locke
“I write love stories with teeth.”
My books are filled with tortured heroes who would burn the world to protect what’s theirs, brilliant heroines who refuse to back down, and romance that sizzles even in the middle of chaos. Happily ever afters aren’t handed out in my worlds — they’re earned through fire, heartbreak, and grit.
Because love is messy, passionate, and sometimes a little dangerous, I love weaving in power dynamics that spark explosive chemistry. That edge? That tension? That’s where the magic happens.
I write for readers who crave danger, passion, and connection — for you, the reader who stays up way too late whispering just one more chapter. My goal is to make you feel every kiss, every breath, every twist, and every betrayal like you’re right there in the thick of it.
Welcome to my world. I’m so glad you’re here.
Freya Locke
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Get The Obsidian Club FreeA ruthless billionaire. An accused innocent. A year-long contract forged from desperation and desire.
When Ivy Monroe is accused of a crime she didn’t commit, she has two options: federal prison or twelve months in Coulton Wolfe’s penthouse. To clear her name, she must submit to the ruthless billionaire who once broke her heart—and follow every rule he writes.
Coulton has spent eight years building an empire—and a weapon powerful enough to destroy the man who tore him and Ivy apart at eighteen. Now his enemy is dead, and Ivy stands in his office with a two-million-dollar bail receipt and no safe harbor. He holds the evidence that can clear her name, but he refuses to release it until she gives him one year of her life.
He offers her a lifeline…and a cage. Protecting her by keeping her close is the only way to feed the obsession he’s never outrun.
As boundaries blur, their arrangement becomes a dangerous game of power and trust. Each revelation pushes Ivy closer to surrender and Coulton closer to choosing between revenge and the woman who still owns his heart.
Prepare for a dark, angsty, page-turning romance with razor-sharp banter, high-stakes courtroom drama, and a happily ever after that earns every tear.
Tropes & Vibe:
- Second-Chance Romance
- Captive/contract romance
- Enemies-to-Lovers with a Captive Twist
- Obsessive Billionaire Hero
- Dominant hero dynamic
- Power-Exchange & Forced Proximity
- He Falls First / Morally Gray Hero
Dark. Angsty. Explicit. A standalone contemporary romance with a hard-won happily-ever-after told in first-person POV.
Perfect for fans of Skye Warren’s twisted billionaires, Anna Zaires’ captivity romances, and readers who crave legal thrillers with intense heat.
When an environmental lawyer must sell her soul to the timber baron she despises to save her wilderness sanctuary, she discovers his price includes more than her body—he wants to chemically rewire her brain to crave his dominance.
Enemies to lovers. Forced proximity. Morally gray billionaire. Dubious consent. Touch her and die.
For eight years, Lila Chase has protected 200,000 acres of wilderness from the vultures of industry—especially from Kael Draven, the ruthless timber baron who destroys everything he touches.
Now she’s about to lose it all.
Three million in defaulted taxes. Seventy-two hours until auction. And only one man with enough power to save her life’s work.
The devil himself.
Kael’s offer is simple: One year. Complete submission. Live in his penthouse. Obey his commands. Surrender her body. In exchange, he’ll save her sanctuary forever.
But the contract includes something she never expected—full disclosure that he’ll be dosing her with a chemical designed to make her body crave his dominance. A drug that will rewire her brain, session by session, until she can’t imagine belonging to anyone else.
I’m not going to trick you into submission, Lila. You’re going to beg me for it, knowing exactly what I’m doing to your chemistry. And you’re going to hate yourself for how much you need it.
He’s been obsessed with her for eight years. She’s spent eight years despising everything he represents. Now she has seventy-two hours to decide: Her sanctuary or her sanity. Her principles or her purpose. Her freedom or her forest.
She chooses the forest.
But, if she thinks she can survive a year.
She’s wrong.
Because Kael Draven doesn’t just want to own her body—he wants to possess her at a molecular level. And with every dose she takes from his hand, every command that sets her nerves on fire, every night she kneels at his feet, she discovers the most terrifying truth of all:
The Protocol isn’t making her want him. It’s just giving her permission to admit she always has.
A dark romance featuring:
- Grumpy x sunshine (if sunshine was feral and sunshine was morally gray)
- Billionaire hero who will burn down the world for his obsession
- “I hate you” to “I hate that I need you” to “I’ll destroy anyone who touches you.”
- Forced proximity that becomes chosen proximity
- Scientific seduction with dubious consent
- He falls first and arranges her fall
- Touch her and die possessive hero
- Kneeling, collaring, and complete power exchange
- The indecent proposal to end all indecent proposals
Warning: This book contains a morally gray hero who has been planning his heroine’s downfall for eight years, dubious consent in the form of disclosed chemical enhancement, explicit scenes of dominance and submission, and a heroine who saves the trees but loses herself—until she discovers that sometimes surrender is the only way to win.
The second book in the Obsidian Club series. Six powerful men. Six reluctant women. One Protocol that changes everything.
He saved her sanctuary. She saved his soul. Together, they burned down everything else.
A blackjack dealer. A billionaire who collects debts in flesh. One contract. One year. One Protocol.
Chloe Henderson deals blackjack at The Sovereign Casino. She’s been raising her addict brother since she was eighteen — scraping rent together while Bennett bleeds her dry at the tables.
Then Bennett loses two-point-three million dollars to the Moreno crime family.
And offers them his sister in his place.
Sebastian York intercepts the deal.
The reclusive billionaire who paid off Bennett’s debt has been watching Chloe for weeks. He doesn’t want one night. He wants a contract. One year of her body, her obedience, and her compliance — guaranteed by a daily dose of a clear liquid he calls the Protocol. Refuse, and Carlo Moreno gets the phone call she won’t survive.
Chloe signs.
Locked inside a penthouse, leashed by a drug that strips her defenses and reveals every honest thing she’s spent her life burying, she discovers Sebastian’s obsession was never about the debt. He didn’t buy her body. He came to collect the woman underneath.
But the Morenos haven’t forgotten what they were promised. Someone inside Sebastian’s empire is feeding the wolves. And the Protocol that was meant to ensure her surrender is teaching them both that owning a woman is not the same as keeping her.
A year was the contract. Forever wasn’t supposed to be on the table.
Tropes you’ll find inside:
- Dark billionaire contract romance
- Captor / captive forced proximity
- Possessive obsessive alpha hero
- Brother betrayal & mafia debt
- Penthouse captivity / caged heroine
- HEA — guaranteed, no cliffhanger
For readers of Pepper Winters, Rina Kent, and Skye Warren — dark romance where power is the language, surrender is the prize, and the cage is the only place the heroine has ever felt at home.
She spent her career proving desire is just chemistry. He’s about to prove she never understood her own.
A dark billionaire romance of dangerous obsession, a forbidden experiment, and the compound that strips away every defense.
Dr. Sera Winters is a celebrated neuroscientist with a secret: in stolen, hidden moments she devours dark romance, ashamed of fantasies she’s never said aloud. Fantasies about surrender. About being claimed. About a man who doesn’t ask—he takes.
Nathan Cross is the billionaire she’s despised for nearly a decade—the rival whose research she publicly destroyed, the man whose gray-green eyes see straight through her armor. When he reappears with an impossible proposition, the carefully controlled world she built out of credentials begins to crack.
She spent years building walls. He’s spent eight years planning to tear them down.
The experiment: ten weeks. A compound that doesn’t create desire—it reveals it. Daily doses that heighten every sensation. Weekend sessions designed to strip away the shame, the fear, and the lies she tells herself about what she really wants.
The rule: she can stop anytime. One word ends everything.
But with each escalating weekend—denial, then touch, then pleasure earned through surrender—Sera uncovers a devastating truth. The Protocol isn’t changing her.
It’s showing her who she’s always been.
Nathan has waited years for a woman strong enough to take everything he needs to give—a woman who won’t break when he stops holding back, who can look at the darkness in him and call it home. But when secrets from his past surface—another woman, another experiment, another promise he couldn’t keep—Sera is forced to answer the question that could destroy them both:
Are her feelings real? Or has she been seduced by the science itself?
The answer will cost her everything—her career, her identity, and her heart—staked on a man who swears she’ll only find freedom once she stops fighting him.
Perfect for readers who love dark billionaire antiheroes, forbidden academic-rival romance, and obsessive, all-consuming intensity.
Tropes:
- Enemies to Lovers
- Billionaire Antihero
- Obsessive Hero (He Falls First)
- Forced Proximity
- Touch Her and Die
- Morally Gray Hero
- Good Girl × Dangerous Man
- Slow Burn to Inferno
She built his empire. He stole her code. Now a ruthless billionaire wants her surrender—not just her revenge.
Avery Donovan built code that could change the world. Then her CEO boyfriend Thane Cain stole it, weaponized it against innocent people, and shattered her wrist when she threatened to expose him. Now she’s broke, blacklisted, and watching her life’s work fuel a surveillance empire while Thane’s golden reputation stays untouched.
Then a text arrives from an unknown number: I know what he did. I know how to destroy him—D.S.
Damian Stryker. Tech billionaire. Thane’s most dangerous enemy. And the most commanding man Avery has ever faced.
His offer looks like a business arrangement: help him dismantle Minotaur Tech from the inside, and she gets her revenge, her reputation, and her life back. It doesn’t stay that way.
Damian doesn’t just want her cybersecurity genius. He wants her surrender. In his war room, he makes her his strategic weapon. In his penthouse, he makes her beg. And with every command, every line they blur between professional and obsession, Avery stops pretending she’s using him.
You think this is about revenge? I’ve been planning Thane’s destruction for eight years. You’re not a means to an end, Avery. You’re the prize I claim when it’s over.
As they uncover murder, conspiracy, and predatory control that runs far deeper than corporate espionage, the most terrifying truth isn’t what Thane did.
It’s what Damian is hiding.
She wanted revenge. He’s offering obsession. And the line between the two is about to burn.
His Ruthless Obsession is a high-heat dark romance featuring a possessive alpha billionaire, a brilliant heroine rising from betrayal, scorching power exchange, and a revenge plot layered over steamy romantic suspense. Perfect for fans of Skye Warren’s dark billionaires and Penelope Douglas’s morally complex heroines.
He gave me twenty-four hours to sign. Then twenty weeks to earn his collar.
I spent three years making my husband small. Mocking him. Starving him. Punishing the gentle, patient man I married for being gentle and patient—because some buried, shameful part of me was screaming for him to stop me, pin me, break me, and he never would.
Until the night he did.
No more asking. No more bending. Gideon set two folders on the counter—a clean divorce, or a contract that signs my body, my mouth, and my obedience over to him completely—and when I stayed, he made me pay for every cruelty I’d ever handed him. Twenty infractions. Twenty strikes of his belt for each. One reckoning a week, for twenty weeks, until my ledger is clean and my pride is gone and there’s nothing left in me but the quiet.
He calls it forgiveness, written into my skin.
I call it the only time I’ve ever felt safe.
There’s a collar on the nightstand with his name on the brass. I’m not allowed to wear it yet. I have to become the woman who’s earned it—and God help me, I have never wanted anything more.
Dark contemporary romance. Total power exchange, domestic discipline, a dominant husband, and a heroine who finally stops fighting the thing she’s always craved. Explicit. Dual POV. Guaranteed HEA.
You’ve been waiting for a man strong enough to look you in the eye while you surrender your control—and sadistic enough to make you pay for every boundary you test.
Nora Vance wears her corporate litigation suits like steel armor. As lead defense counsel, she is the only thing standing between her brother’s tech startup and a predatory conglomerate. But to silence the crushing weight of her family’s survival, she escapes to the VIP chambers of the Obsidian Club. Blindfolded, bound, and collared, she surrenders control to a nameless, anonymous sadist.
Barrett Croft is the conglomerate’s lead counsel—meticulous, predatory, and undefeated. When Nora faces him in the boardroom, she’s ready for a legal war. She isn’t ready for him to reach into his pocket and slide the brass key to her leather collar across the settlement table.
He knows her voice. He knows her body. And he has just cleared the room to dictate his terms.
He has the evidence to clear her brother, but the price is signing a private, one-year lifestyle submission contract. Under his roof, Nora must submit to his rules and accept his discipline in private—while fighting him fiercely in public.
She signs, believing she can play him, steal his files, and win the suit. But Barrett is a hyper control freak who welcomes her rebellion. Every power play she makes, he turns back on her, correcting her defiance with canes, whips, and absolute dominance.
In the boardroom, they are rivals. In his study, she belongs to him. And as the litigation reaches a boiling point, the legal adversary she was determined to defeat becomes her only psychological safe harbor.
You’ve been waiting for a man strong enough to lock the door behind you when the world keeps letting you go—and dominant enough to lock the collar around your neck.
Violet Sinclair has spent her life being left behind. When her father died, he left his business partner, Greyson Sinclair—billionaire founder of the Obsidian Club—to manage her trust fund until she turns twenty-five. For years, she has watched him from the shadows, aching for the raw BDSM play she knows he commands. Reading his cold refusals as rejection, she decides to break her fixation. On the eve of her twenty-fourth birthday, she enters a public lifestyle club, ready to give her virginity to a stranger.
She doesn’t expect Greyson to drag her out by the wrist, growling that she is his.
Greyson has spent years in a silent hell, bound by a deathbed promise to wait until she is twenty-five. But seeing another man touch her pulse snaps the leash. He forces her back to his Greek Isles estate under a strict, one-year master/slave contract: no undergarments, total availability, and absolute obedience to his commands.
She signs, craving the weights and constraints of his playroom. But Greyson’s dominance is a dark cage of hand spankings, penance, and total control.
As her twenty-fifth birthday approaches, Greyson prepares to strip the collar and let her go, believing he must protect her choice. But Violet is done being left behind. On the day she is legally free, she will rewrite the contract herself—shredding the disbursement papers, signing her fortune back to him, and demanding to be owned permanently.
You crave the fantasy of total, unapologetic surrender. The kind that quiets the noise in your head and makes the world disappear beneath the unyielding authority of a man who knows exactly how to own you.
Sophie Ashford spent her entire life trapped in a glass box, overprotected and suffocated by her older brother. Desperate to prove she isn’t fragile, she walks into an exclusive underground BDSM auction. It was supposed to be an act of rebellion. A one-night stand to reclaim her body.
She didn’t expect the winning bidder to be Lachlan Kane.
He’s a ruthless billionaire hedge-fund CEO. He’s cold. He’s untouchable.
And he’s her brother’s best friend.
Lachlan drops one million dollars just to drag her off the auction block, determined to scare her out of his dark world before she gets hurt. But Sophie isn’t the fragile little girl he remembers. She calls his bluff. She demands the collar. She demands the pain.
When Lachlan locks the platinum steel around her throat, his transactional armor fractures. He realizes that keeping her a secret from his best friend is dangerous, but letting her go is impossible.
His Reckoning is a scorching, high-angst standalone dark romance in the His Reckoning series. It features a commanding, obsessive billionaire Master, a defiant heroine finding her freedom in submission, and a forbidden age-gap/brother’s best friend dynamic that will leave you breathless. HEA guaranteed.
He’s my father’s ruthless partner. My billionaire boss. And the master I never knew I needed.
I’m supposed to be earning my place on merit, keeping my head down as the newest intern at Blackwood Restructuring. No one knows I’m the CFO’s daughter. No one knows the truth about why I’m really here.
But when a delayed subway train makes me hours late delivering a critical hostile-takeover file, I accidentally stumble into an anonymous BDSM booking in the CEO’s office suite. And before I can confess who I really am, Declan Blackwood slips a blindfold over my eyes and locks the door.
By day, Declan is the coldest, most brilliant corporate raider on Wall Street. He demands perfection, dictates the terms of every merger, and looks right through me. But at night, in the safety of his private office, he is a demanding, obsessive master who brings me to my knees and unravels all my hidden fears.
I’m playing a dangerous game of double jeopardy. If I speak up, I’ll lose the only man who has ever made me feel completely safe. If my father finds out, Declan will lose the empire he built from the ground up.
I thought I could keep the blindfold on forever. I thought my secret was safe.
But Declan Blackwood always demands absolute compliance—and he will burn down everything to claim what belongs to him.
His Reckoning is a standalone, high-stakes billionaire romance featuring an intense office dynamic, explicit consensual BDSM, and a protective, obsessive alpha who sacrifices everything for the woman he loves.
Julian built the Obsidian Club. Every man in this series went through a door he installed. Six books of watching other men get the thing they wanted — and Julian standing at the back of the room with a drink he never finishes.
Chloe walked in under a fake name. She’s a romance author, there to research her next book, and she’s decided she can study surrender the way you’d study anything else — from behind a notebook, clinical, safe, at a distance.
Julian sees exactly what she’s doing. And he’s the one man alive who can prove she can’t fake it.