Pup Publishing by T. Rix

Marked
May 2027

Some scars are hidden.
Some are written across the skin.
And some are carved so deep only love can find them.

She has spent her life surviving the kind of pain that leaves marks no one else can see. Betrayed, abandoned, and broken by people who were supposed to love her, she learned how to keep her heart guarded and her wounds buried beneath silence.

Then she meets him.

A tattoo artist with darkness in his eyes, ink on his skin, and hands steady enough to turn pain into something beautiful. He does not ask her to be healed. He does not flinch from the pieces of her she thinks are too damaged to love. Instead, he sees her — every scar, every bruise, every story she never had the courage to speak.

What begins as ink becomes something far more permanent.

As their connection deepens, she must decide whether she is brave enough to let herself be touched by tenderness again, and whether the man marking her skin might also be the one who finally reaches her soul.

Marked is a dark, emotional romance about trauma, survival, desire, and the kind of love that does not erase the past — it helps you reclaim it.