Fractured Loyalties

She ran from her past into the arms of a killer. Now she must decide if his darkness is safer than the light. Along the fog-drenched coast of Miramont, Mara Thomas builds her life out of silence and routine. Soft-spoken and scarred, she hides in the shadows of the trauma clinic, desperate to escape the violent man who once owned her. But when a letter arrives and a black car appears in the mist, Mara realizes the past is closer than she dares admit. Elias Voss is too precise. Too polished. Too dangerous. By day he wears the mask of...

She ran from her past into the arms of a killer. Now she must decide if his darkness is safer than the light. Along the fog-drenched coast of Miramont, Mara Thomas builds her life out of silence and routine. Soft-spoken and scarred, she hides in the shadows of the trauma clinic, desperate to escape the violent man who once owned her. But when a letter arrives and a black car appears in the mist, Mara realizes the past is closer than she dares admit. Elias Voss is too precise. Too polished. Too dangerous. By day he wears the mask of a consultant, by night he is a contract killer with blood on his hands. Drawn to Mara’s fragility—and the dark hunger she tries to bury—Elias offers her the one thing no one else can: ruthless protection. But his devotion borders on obsession, and his control may cost her more than her freedom. As Caleb, the ex she fears most, resurfaces with a vengeance, Mara is trapped between two predators—one who wants to destroy her, and one who demands she belong to him. When betrayal ignites bloodshed, Mara must choose: trust the monster who claims her safety, or risk everything for the light she no longer believes in. Obsession disguises itself as loyalty. But in the shadows, love is never clean.