Kole doesn't call himself a killer.
He calls it feeding the monster-- the violent hunger that coils inside him, whispering for release.
He's spent years pretending he's in control, pretending the monster is something separate from him.
Something he can cage.

Claire sees through every lie.

She's been stalking him, slipping through the shadows he thinks are empty. She studies him, memorizes his habits, follows the trail of darkness he leaves behind. Her obsession should terrify her-- but loving Kole has never been about safety. It's about surrender.
And Kole lets her follow. He likes it. He names her his little shadow, the only person he allows close enough to touch the edges of the truth he refuses to admit.

But the shadows belong to more than just them.

Someone else has been watching-- quiet, patient, and far more dangerous than Kole's inner monster. A silent stalker who wants to break him open and expose everything he's tried to bury. Someone who sees Claire not as a threat... but as a weapon.

When Claire is taken, Kole's denial fractures. The monster he's tried to leash rises with teeth bared, ready to tear apart anyone who stands between him and the only woman who has ever chosen his darkness on purpose.

To get her back, Kole must stop pretending. He must become the hunter he truly is-- unrestrained, unforgiving, and honest at last about what he's always been.

Because love in the dark isn't gentle.
It's bloody.
It's obsessive.
And it's worth killing for.

A dark romance where obsession isn't the problem-- it's the promise.