How many horrible people can one man survive before he becomes one himself?

Malik Soria-Cross is a forty-five-year-old multimillionaire who has already lived through the kind of pain that should have buried him. After kidnappers take his wife Elena and murder her even after he pays the ransom, Malik falls into a black depression that turns him into a magnet for predators. Women circle him pretending to care. Friends use sympathy as a doorway to his money. Fake charities feed on his grief by dressing greed in mercy, especially when they learn he has a soft spot for dogs. Every corner of his life becomes an entry point for people who see a broken rich man and smell opportunity.

Then he meets Jayden Ryu Valdés, a younger man who seems different. Calm. restrained. untouched by the usual hunger. Malik mistakes relief for safety and marries him far too quickly. What follows is not love, but one of the most intimate betrayals of his life. Jayden drugs him, frames him with staged evidence of infidelity, weaponizes the law, and moves to take half of everything, including the house Malik still associates with his dead wife. By the time Malik realizes he has been hunted again, something inside him has already changed.

Addicted to Horrible People: Used, Ruined, and Left to Rot is a dark psychological thriller about grief, exploitation, false intimacy, legal manipulation, and revenge that does not heal. This is a brutal descent into the emotional machinery of predatory people and the terrifying clarity that comes when a man stops mistaking hunger for love.