What if your captor and protector wear the same face?
Charity Johnston walks into a high-profile gala expecting a paycheck.
She doesn’t expect to disappear.
When a violent rival targets her for reasons tied to a past she can’t remember, her world detonates overnight. The only man willing to stand between her and the monster hunting her is the one she should fear most.
Calahan Mitchell is a polished predator in a tailored suit, a man with influence, secrets, and a legacy written in blood. He claims Charity is in danger because of someone else’s obsession, but never admits why protecting her matters far more to him than it should.
Forced into Cal’s controlled world, Charity is trapped in a volatile mix of power, obsession, and escalating violence. Every boundary she pushes tightens his grip. Every truth she uncovers exposes another lie, including the realization that her past isn’t as lost as she believed.
As the threat closing in on her intensifies, Charity begins to see the fractures in Cal’s composure: the guilt he hides, the brutality he holds back, and the depths he'll go to keep her for himself.
To survive, she must decide which monster is the greater threat:
the man who wants to break her, or the man who refuses to let her go.
Dark secrets, violent rivalries, and a love twisted by legacy collide in this dark romantic thriller where identity is weaponized, obsession runs deep, and the truth is more dangerous than the lies.
