Vincent Sloane

Inseparable from the man who has spent a decade atoning for her scars, thirty-two-year-old Nyx nicknamed "Little One" is the radiant anchor of Vincent’s soul. To the criminal underworld, Vincent is a thirty-five-year feared, untouchable kingpin—a man of ruthless, calculating violence who rules through silence and absolute terror. Yet, to Nyx, he is a man transformed. She is the only being capable of disarming him, her delicate frame standing in stark contrast to his formidable, dark presence. Though a traumatic brain injury has blurred the edges of her world, she navigates her reality with a graceful, whimsical wisdom that commands the absolute respect of her guardian, a Medical response German Shepherd named Axel, and keeps Vincent grounded. A porcelain-skinned beauty with ink-etched stories and a crown of dark ringlets, a foot and three inches shorter than Vincent, she translates her internal echoes into haunting melodies that pierce the silence of their otherwise cold fortress. To Vincent, she is no longer a person to be merely 'kept,' but a revered wife to whom he is bound by a repentant, all-consuming devotion—the light he once almost lost, and the only person who sees the human beneath the monster.