The Shadow Tithe: A Captive Romance with Magic and Curses

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Sloane Vale

Sloane Vale writes unapologetically brutal erotica that strips away every pretense to expose the raw psychology of obsession, power, and desire. Her dark fantasy explores the razor's edge between surrender and survival—where shame transforms into hunger, vengeance becomes the ultimate foreplay, and characters discover that their deepest taboos might be their truest salvation.
Drawing from extensive research into human psychology and power dynamics, Sloane crafts stories that don't just challenge boundaries—they obliterate them entirely. Her work delves into the beautiful brutality of relationships where control and submission become forms of worship, and where the most dangerous game is learning to trust someone with your darkest needs.
She believes that the most honest stories happen in the spaces polite society refuses to acknowledge, where characters are forced to confront the parts of themselves they've spent lifetimes hiding. Her readers don't come for comfort—they come for catharsis, for the electric shock of recognition when fictional desires mirror their own forbidden thoughts.
When not writing scenes that make her question the depths of her own imagination, Sloane can be found studying historical accounts of power structures, collecting vintage psychology texts, and perfecting the art of silence that comes from knowing too many secrets. She's convinced that the most interesting conversations happen in the pauses between words.
Sloane lives somewhere between shadow and light, accompanied by her familiar—a black cat named Circe who serves as both muse and moral compass, though her standards are admittedly questionable. She's currently working on her next exploration of how beautiful destruction can be when it's exactly what someone needs.

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