The Ashford Stain

Abandoned as an infant, Lucian Ward returns to the fictional city of Veridia with a meticulously crafted plan: to annihilate the Ashford textile dynasty that denied him. Using a landmark trademark battle as his scalpel, he carves into the family's legacy, exposing its bigotry and exploiting the law's own blind spots. As he seduces, manipulates, and destroys every heir in his path, Lucian discovers that the abyss inside him craves more than mere ruin—it demands a life as the final filler for an insatiable longing. A chilling psychological revenge thriller in the vein of Caroline Kepnes, where identity is a weapon and desire is a wound that never heals.