Marked in Silence | Deadly Sins | A Dark Bully Romance Novel

CONTENT WARNING. READ BEFORE CONTINUING

Marked in Silence is a dark bully romance. It includes mature, triggering, and confronting content not suitable for all readers.

Inside, you’ll find a morally grey, borderline irredeemable hero who weaponises power, fear, and manipulation to get what he wants.

Dubious consent, graphic bullying, public humiliation, institutional neglect, victim-blaming, and emotional cruelty.

A heroine who’s fighting to reclaim her agency in a world that constantly tries to strip it from her.

This is not a soft love story. If you’re looking for a redemptive arc wrapped in fluff, this is not the book for you. There are no tidy morals, no characters begging for forgiveness at every turn, and no attempt to sanitise the consequences of abuse, power, or trauma.

It is messy, uncomfortable, violent, and raw. Intentionally so. You are meant to feel conflicted. You are meant to rage. This is fiction that leans into discomfort, not away from it.

If any of this sounds like something you’ll struggle with, please give yourself the grace to walk away. If, however, you’re here for the ugly, the unfiltered, the complicated, and the type of story that doesn’t flinch from darkness, then welcome. You’re exactly where you’re meant to be.

Book Two, Broken in Chains, is much darker. Disturbingly dark. Emotionally and psychologically intense.

Reader discretion is heavily advised!

Trigger & Content Warnings (in order of occurrence and context):

This series contains explicit themes and situations that may be disturbing to some readers. The following TW/CW apply across the series, particularly in Book 2. Proceed with awareness:

• Non-con/NC

• Dub-con

• Ext. kink (knife play, blood play, breath play)

• Degradation / Humiliation

• F. body mod (forced tattoos/piercings/scarring)

• Graphic v. & gore

• Murder / Dismemberment

• Torture (physical & emotional)

• Immolation

• Self-harm / SH

• SI (suicidal ideation)

• Abduction / Kidnapping

• Forced captivity / Imprisonment

• Manipulation / Narc. abuse

• Stalking / NC voyeurism

• Past trauma / PTSD

• Mental health (dep., anx.)

• Drug abuse / Addiction

• Ext. religious ideology

• Traumatic birth scenes

• Pregnancy under duress

• Cannibalism

• Necro

• Multi perps (non-con by more than one)

• Forced oral / anal / vag

• Somno

• Power imbalance / Coercion

• Bondage / Restraint

• Snuff content (films referenced!)

• Obsessive / Possessive behaviour

This list is not exhaustive. Additional themes may emerge throughout the series as the characters descend deeper into the darkness.

Note: This series is not a glamorised romance. The events depicted are intentionally disturbing and rooted in the psychology of control, trauma, and survival.

The main characters do not defy these extremes for the sake of love.

Nothing harmful is glorified. Nothing toxic is romanticised.

This is dark fiction: confrontational, emotional, and often uncomfortable. It is written to provoke, not to excuse.

If you’re ready to journey into a world where trust is weaponised and love might be the cruellest game of all…

Welcome to Deadly Sins.