A Veil of Execration
When Savannah Hale is promised to a man she doesn’t love, she expects her cage to slam shut forever. Her life was always a transaction—her smile sold, her body promised, her future sealed in contracts… until Leon.
He doesn’t ask. He doesn’t wait. He tears the world apart to mark her as his.
Older, colder, blood-stained, and unrepentant—he is every warning she was raised to fear.
And yet, he is the first man who really saw her—the only man she’ll bleed for.
Because when ruin feels like devotion, how can it be anything but love?
Content warnings & author’s note
Dark content level 5 of 5: On-page graphic violence and/or SA
Author’s note
Dear Not-So-Gentle Reader,
First, let me thank you for picking up A Veil of Execration. I hope you brought a stiff drink, a rosary, and maybe a therapist on retainer. Because this isn’t a sweet love story with hand-holding and picnics. This is the kind of book where the picnic basket contains zip ties, the wine is laced with menace, and the blanket is already stained with blood.
Leon is not a cinnamon roll. He’s not even a burnt croissant. He’s arsenic wrapped in French leather with a gun tucked into his belt and a knife under your pillow. And Savannah? She probably should run, but instead she trips, moans, and thanks him for chaining her to the altar.
So, before you wander in unsuspecting, here’s your menu of depravity (also known as content warnings):
- Graphic death, murder, and violence (artistic blood-splatter included)
- Unnegotiated D/s dynamic (no contracts, no safewords, just Leon being Leon)
- A sizeable age gap (38/22, or as Leon would say: “old enough to be man enough for her”)
- Edge play & primal play (if you don’t know, you’ll learn)
- Blood play, knife play, gun play (basically if it cuts, bleeds, or goes bang, Leon thinks it’s a sex toy)
- Orgasm control (she begs, he denies, everyone suffers beautifully)
- Breeding kink (with a side of birth control tampering)
- Stalking (the obsessive, obsessive kind—he’s basically her personal shadow with a murder habit)
- And probably a few other sins I forgot to confess
If any of the above makes you clutch your pearls, consider this your polite exit. If instead you need to make sure your battery-operated boyfriend is charged before turning the next page—welcome home.
With blood, wine, and at least a little French profanity,
Maelana ~ Stay Naughty
Trigger warnings
- Age Gap
- Alcohol
- Anti-Religious Themes
- Anxiety
- BDSM (Bondage, Blood Play, Primal Play, Weapon Play)
- Birth Control Tampering
- Blood
- Blood As Ink
- Blood As Paint
- Blood Play
- Bondage
- Breeding Kink
- Death
- Depression
- Desecration Of A Religious Building
- Dominant/submissive Dynamic (Unnegotiated)
- Drinking
- Drugs (Mention Of)
- Edge Play
- Forced Marriage (Questionably)
- Groom Execution As Foreplay
- Guns, Gunfire, & Gun Violence
- Gun Play
- Hand to Hand Combat
- Human Trafficking
- Illegal Activities
- Injury
- Knife Play
- Knives & Knife Violence (Also Cigar Cutter Violence)
- Law Enforcement Involvement
- Murder
- Orgasm Denial
- Pedophilia (Off Page Discussion Of - Not MMC)
- Physical Injury
- Pregnancy
- Primal Play
- Profanity
- Rape (Off Page Discussion Of)
- Rough Sex
- Sexually Explicit Scenes
- Sex Used As Punishment
- Smoking
- Stalking
- Stockholm Syndrome (Questionably)
- Torture
- Trafficking
- Use Of Unconventional Objects For Penetration
- Violence (Graphic)
On-page consent & care
Explicit consent is on the page, even in CNC and dubcon scenes, and characters talk about barrier protection and birth control.