
A Dark Crime Romance of Obsession and Power
A Dark Crime Romance of Obsession and Power
Neither of them was meant to survive.
Not the woman with a haunted name.
Nor the man who built a shadow empire from silence, surveillance, and surgical rage to keep her tethered to him.
Killian Thorne doesn’t rule with guns.
He rules with information, code, and strategy.
A billionaire, control-coded genius with a past soaked in blood. He's evolved beyond the crime syndicate that created him.
He doesn’t play the game. He reprograms it.
Not for power. Not for revenge.
Because he’s bored.
Ada Murphy was rewritten. Renamed. Repackaged.
Once a satin shoe wearing piano prodigy, now a trauma-coded DJ—held together by ink, bass drops, and the lies she tells herself about being fine.
She left him in the pursuit of self-discovery. For a lie she believed—that she could exist in the light. Away from the abyss of his shadow.
He let her think that meant something.
But now encrypted systems are pinging. Names that were meant to stay buried are surfacing. And the past Ada was hidden from is clawing its way back, right alongside the buried ghosts of Killian’s past.
This isn’t love. It’s obsession with a kill count. It’s a bond forged from violence, silence, and blood.
And when someone threatens her, There is no negotiating.
Only ruin.
Who was Anya Mikhailov? Where did she really come from?
The dirt under the Mikhailov graves.
The rising ghosts.
Why can't she remember?
And more importantly—why do they want her?
The stakes are set.
Killian knows who's after Ada. He is ready to burn the world down to keep her safe.
Ready to unearth every scrap of information, every thread-bare lead to find the truth. For her.
But what they find…might just be the thing that breaks her.
Legacy. Betrayal. And the truths that refused to stay buried.
Coming December 2025.
Architect of Ruin is Book One in the Shadow Gods series—five books of obsession, power, and morally black characters you’ll love against your better judgement.
The first two form a duology- the story of Killian and Ada:
A British genius and philosophical nihilist. Obsessed with one person. Born from a bloody, criminal past who embraces silence.
A musical prodigy with mafia blood and a past that doesn't seem to want to forget her.
While the remaining three will be spin-offs based on characters featured in the same verse:
A Scottish cyber criminal with an IQ higher than the sky and trauma deeper than the sea.
Twin Assassins born to kill.
And a Queer enforcer with a penchant for knives, pool boys, and the dark things that go bump in the night.
They’re all sharp-tongued, violent, funny, broken—and absolutely unforgettable.
If that sounds like your kind of mess, you’re in the right place.
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By Tamar Shaw - Shadow Gods Series
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