Iris is trying to survive college, keep her head down, and build a future no one can take from her. Then Adrian notices her, and being seen by him changes everything. Controlled, intelligent, and respected in his professional life, Adrian hides a violent darkness no one around him suspects. He has his own rules about who deserves punishment, and once Iris becomes the center of his attention, those rules become brutally personal. He watches. He intervenes. He removes threats before she even knows they exist. What begins as fascination turns into obsession, and obsession becomes possession. When Iris is pulled into Adrian's private world, fear and attraction become impossible to separate. The man holding her close is also the man capable of terrible things, yet beneath his ruthless devotion is a connection that challenges everything she believes about danger, desire, and control. Adrian insists he can protect her from the worst parts of the world. Iris soon realizes the question is not whether he is dangerous. It is whether the greatest danger is outside his walls or standing close enough to touch her. To escape his darkness, she first has to understand why part of her is no longer certain she wants to.
Iris is trying to survive college, keep her head down, and build a future no one can take from her. Then Adrian notices her, and being seen by him changes everything. Controlled, intelligent, and respected in his professional life, Adrian hides a violent darkness no one around him suspects. He ha...