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The Auction (Wages of Sin #1) by Sadie Kincaid
The Auction (Wages of Sin #1) by Sadie Kincaid
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Dark mafia romance • Beauty & the Beast vibes • masked billionaire • gothic mansion • slow-burn heat • deluxe limited edition
If you loved Dante, this is your next “oh no… I’m obsessed” read. The Auction kicks off Sadie Kincaid’s Wages of Sin series with a tense, twisty dark romance where a sheltered heroine is sold to the highest bidder—and ends up in the hands of a masked, reclusive billionaire whose home feels like a gilded cage.
The vibe
She was raised to be a pawn—kept “pure,” hidden away, and promised to the Brotherhood as penance for her parents’ alleged crimes. On her twenty-first birthday, she isn’t given a future… she’s auctioned off. The man who buys her is Lincoln Knight: a notorious, morally gray alpha with a mask, a monster’s reputation, and a crumbling mansion deep in the woods that feels more like a prison than a home.
She plans to escape—she has to. But Lincoln isn’t what he seems, and the longer she’s trapped in his shadowed world, the more the fear curdles into something dangerous: curiosity, attraction, need. Then the secrets start surfacing—darker than the scars he hides—and she’s forced to question whether the real lie is Lincoln… or everything she’s ever been told.
Tropes & tags
- Dark mafia romance / organized crime backdrop
- Auction / sold to the highest bidder
- Beauty and the Beast retelling vibes
- Masked MMC
- Morally gray alpha hero
- Gothic mansion / captive-adjacent setting
- Determined heroine / escape plan
- Slow burn → scorching spice
- “Nothing is what it seems” twists
- Classic gothic inspo (Jane Eyre / Wuthering Heights energy)
Edition note: Deluxe hardcover limited edition with special cover effects, stamped foil case, matching endpapers, and floral edges (while supplies last).
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