The Auction
Sadie Kincaid
Publisher: MIRA
Publication date: April 14, 2026
Genre: Dark Romance
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I was trained to be a pawn, but I will rise as a queen.
My life has never been my own. After the death of my parents, I was saved by my grandfather, with the promise that he would turn me over to the Brotherhood on my twenty-first birthday.
I was kept away from the outside world so I could one day be sold to the highest bidder—pure and unsullied. Penance for my parents’ alleged crimes.
That’s how I come to be sold at an auction.
And who buys me but the reclusive billionaire, Lincoln Knight?
Some say that he’s a monster, more dangerous than any of the evil men from the Brotherhood. That he wears a mask to cover his scars. But I believe he’s hiding more than just his face behind his mask.
My fate is sealed when he takes me to his crumbling mansion deep in the woods. I’m trapped. Entirely at his mercy.
I have to escape.
But something here isn’t what it seems.
Lincoln isn’t what he seems. Maybe he’s not a monster at all. I’m drawn to him in a way that I can’t explain. Until I discover that his secrets go far beyond his mask.
My Thoughts…
I’m not quite sure what the purpose of this book was. I thought I was getting a dark mafia romance, but what I got was book porn, with a scratch of substance of a story line.
You see, when Lincoln purchases Imogen at a human trafficking auction for the “Brotherhood”, you know things are messed up. Imogen has been groomed since she was three years old, to be sold in this auction. She’s the daughter of the traitor to the Brotherhood, and her flesh is payment for those sins. So, when she’s purchased, I was happy to see that Lincoln wasn’t a total perv and was there to save her from going to another buying where she would be abused. Then we realize that Lincoln has spent the last 18 years (the same years that she’s been groomed for) hunting down Brotherhood members, rescuing the woman sold, and trying his hardest to demolish the Brotherhood. That right there is when I took more notice and got excited. I already knew Lincoln wasn’t buying her for nefarious reasons, and I was excited to see the other girls be rescued and get some nitty gritty when it came to the fight scenes. However, we only get two of those moments. The rest is of these two rutting away “in love” with each other. Mind you, he’s in his 40’s, is her god father, her deceased father’s best-friend, and he purchased her. She has no clue he’s trying to take down the Brotherhood, or that he was besties with her father. All she knows is this billionaire bought her; and yet in stead of keeping her walls up, she falls in love with him and tries to live a happy life locked away in his house.
I just expected more from this book. I wanted to see more of Lincoln going after the Brotherhood. I wanted to see more of Imogen piecing her new life together compared to what she’s been conditioned for. I wanted to see the story unfold. What I didn’t want to see is them going at it, page after page, while the other girls are out there suffering and dying.
