His To Ruin
About
He didn’t rescue her from ruin—he designed it.
She ran from the world that betrayed her.
He built a cage disguised as salvation.
Once celebrated, now disgraced, Isla Vane disappears to a secluded estate near Cornwall, Ontario—hiding from scandal, heartbreak, and the art world that destroyed her. Betrayed by the man she loved and managed by, Isla wants only silence, solitude, and the chance to create again on her own terms.
What she doesn’t realize is that her retreat has been meticulously arranged.
Damien Rourke—wealthy art patron, shadowed visionary, and dangerously obsessed—believes true brilliance is born through ruin. He offers Isla everything she craves: isolation, protection, devotion. What he demands in return is surrender. To his influence. His control. His vision of who she should become.
As desire tangles with domination, Isla finds herself slipping into a relationship where power and intimacy blur. She is both muse and captive, drawn to the darkness Damien awakens inside her. He pushes her to create from pain, to break herself open for art—no matter the cost.
The arrival of her former best friend, a relentless documentarian, and Damien’s estranged sister fractures the illusion of safety. Secrets surface. Motives collide. And Isla discovers the most devastating truth of all: Damien didn’t save her from her fall—he orchestrated it.
Now Isla must choose.
Freedom… or the ruin that fuels her brilliance.
His to Ruin is a provocative dark romance about obsession, power, artistic destruction, and the dangerous beauty of choosing the darkness that makes you whole.
For readers who crave morally gray heroes, seductive control, and love stories that burn instead of heal.
Praise for this book
Dark, intoxicating, and exquisitely unsettling
His to Ruin by Stephanie Tyo is the kind of dark romance that seeps under your skin and refuses to let go.
This isn’t a story about being saved it’s about being chosen, dismantled, and reshaped.
Isla Vane is a beautifully fractured FMC, reeling from betrayal and public disgrace, and her retreat into isolation feels raw and achingly real. Enter Damien Rourke controlled, obsessive, and utterly magnetic. From the start, there’s an unsettling intimacy to him that makes your pulse spike and your instincts scream at the same time. He doesn’t just want Isla’s art… he wants her. Her pain. Her surrender. Her brilliance born from ruin.
The power imbalance in this book is intentional, sharp, and masterfully written. Stephanie Tyo blurs the lines between desire and domination so skillfully that you’re constantly questioning where consent ends and manipulation begins and that tension is deliciously agonizing. Isla’s descent into being both muse and captive is haunting, sensual, and emotionally charged.
The pacing is tight, the atmosphere is moody and oppressive in the best way, and the secondary characters crack the façade just enough to keep the suspense razor-edged. And that reveal? Chilling. Absolutely chilling.
This book doesn’t shy away from the darkness it embraces it. If you love obsessive MMCs, psychological tension, morally gray (or outright black) romance, and stories that ask uncomfortable questions about control, creativity, and desire… His to Ruin will wreck you in the best possible way.
'There are some triggers'. Then read it anyway—if you dare. 🖤🔥