TCT: D&K Books Edition

The Iconic Dark Romance Series That Captivated the D&K Books

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Captive is the bestselling psychological erotic thriller that launched Llianne Olivo’s Captive Studios dynasty saga.

A pitch-black exploration of power, obsession, and the rise of a forbidden pleasure empire hidden within the darkest circles of Hollywood.

Across three interwoven books, Captive follows Vanessa, Stephanie, and Leston as Captive Studios transforms from a private fixation into an international dynasty built on control, devotion, and carefully constructed illusion. Vanessa is taken and reshaped. Stephanie is lifted from ruin into reverence. Leston is born into legacy and becomes its greatest threat.

What begins in transgression spirals into love and hatred, loyalty and betrayal, transformation and war. Spanning generations and continents, this trilogy dissects ambition, corruption, trauma, and the dangerous cost of desire, where power becomes sacred and legacy demands a sacrifice no one makes without blood on their hands.

BOOK ONE — VANESSA

A Texas heiress with a perfect pedigree. A photographer twice her age with a taste for control. One kidnapping. One camera. One queen remade from ruin.

BOOK TWO — STEPHANIE

An orphan running from her past stumbles into Captive Studios and is remolded by pain, worship, and love. Until the heir grows up wanting her for himself—and there is no safe way to say no.

BOOK THREE — LESTON

Born of devils, sharpened by violence, raised on spectacle. Stephanie is his altar. His obsession. His undoing. And when he claims what was never meant to be his, the dynasty cracks from the inside.

THE DYNASTY

From Texas to London, Florida to Colombia, the Gordons rise as porn kings, cult leaders, and devils in designer suits. But empires rot. Legacies hunger. And Captive Studios was never built to survive its chosen heir.

MICRO TROPES

• Kidnap → Devotion
• Stockholm seductive tension
• Age gap obsession
• Pornstar empire-building
• Dangerous mentorship
• Found family (pitch black)
• Worship kink
• Filmed sex
• Virgin obsessive heir
• Forbidden desire
• Dynasty collapse
• Polyamory edges
• Drag queens + celebrities
• Hollywood cult glamour
• Sin-as-scripture aesthetic

MACRO TROPES

• Extreme Dark Romance
• Porn Industry Power & Corruption
• Billionaire BDSM Empire
• Psychological Erotica
• Antihero × Broken Heroine
• Dynasty saga across generations
• Trauma, transformation, and obsession
• Multi-POV rise and collapse of an erotic empire

CONTENT WARNINGS

For adult readers (18+) only.

• This Original Edition contains extreme dark romance and psychological erotica, including:
• Sexual violence, rape, non-consent, dubious consent
• Kidnapping, confinement, grooming, psychological captivity
• Power imbalance and large age gaps (including 52/18)
• BDSM, impact play, humiliation, breath play, collaring
• Pornography, filmed sex, voyeurism, group scenes
• Blood play, fluid exchange, taboo fetish elements
• Stalking, obsession, manipulation, surveillance
• Mental health themes: bipolar disorder, dissociation, trauma
• Crime, mafia/Yakuza/cartel violence
• Drug/alcohol use, industrial and claustrophobic settings
• Religious and sacrilegious imagery, cult aesthetics
• Extreme physical harm, including industrial car-crusher scene
• This series is intentionally unsafe, transgressive, and morally black.
•  Reader discretion is strongly advised.

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Acknowledgements

   I hope you enjoyed this book. This edition includes Captive 1, Captive 2, and Captive 3, along with additional POVs and verses from the unreleased The Secret Lives of Pornstars, The Red Bible, Devil’s Queen, Devil’s Whore, Devil’s Pawn and In the Name of Sin and Depravity: Erotic Poetry Collection. 

   Captive is my debut—my first bestselling story, my first world that refused to let me go. It held me captive for almost a year, and in many ways, it still does. I never truly stopped writing it. What began as a single book became a trilogy, and it continues to expand, bleed into other stories, and breathe across my body of work. Characters from Captive appear in Tokyo and Kyoto from The Secret Lives of the Yakuza. 

   There is a poetry collection born from this world, and a BDSM poetry collection inspired by it as well. Captive is many things at once—a pornstar romance, a billionaire romance, a taboo romance, a pitch-black romance—and somehow, it becomes something new and alive every single day in the hands of readers around the world. Watching this story find its people has been one of the most surreal and meaningful experiences of my life.

   Thank you to my loved ones for believing in me when this project consumed every spare hour, every late night, every piece of my attention.

   Thank you  my PAs—Rhia, Ivette, Marlena, Ares, and Autumn. I love you. I wish I could do more for you. Thank you for staying with me through chaos, doubt, burnout, setbacks, and breakthroughs. Thank you for checking covers, reminding me of deadlines, keeping me accountable, lifting me up when I was ready to quit, and believing in this world even when I was too tired to believe in myself. You carried me through this book more than you know.

   Thank you to my author friends. I love you all. Tania, Quinn, Ariana, Rebecca, Nola, Liana, Avi, and Kira—thank you for the constant inspiration, encouragement, and creative fire. Being surrounded by artists who refuse to stop creating has changed me. Your work pushes me to go deeper, darker, and truer in my own.

   To every reader who has ever picked up one of my novels or poems—thank you for giving me a chance. Thank you for trusting me with your time, your emotions, your curiosity, and your hunger for stories that live in the shadows. I know this world will continue to grow—with more reviews, more readers, more conversations, and a community of dark, taboo, and pitch-black romance lovers who find a home in these pages. This is only the beginning. My works-in-progress are many. 

   I am only getting started. I now have a home for this universe beyond these pages—my website—and I am expanding into new platforms, new formats, and new ways to bring these stories to life. Audiobooks are in the works. I’m most active on Instagram, Facebook, Substack, and TikTok, and I’m finding my voice on YouTube as well. You can always find me through my website and Linktree.

   I can’t wait to connect with you. 

   Thank you for being here.

   I’ll see you in the next book.

   With love and fire,

   Llianne Olivo