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He never meant to hurt her. But she'd already seen his face.
ARIA
I can feel him watching.
Even when he's nowhere in sight.
I spent my whole life being careful. The quiet girl in the corner. Always invisible.
Until the night I saw him kill.
His knife found my throat, a threat still lingering on his tongue.
I was sure that was the end.
But death wasn't what he had in mind.
What he wanted was far worse.
LEDGER
I had one job.
Slip in, eliminate the target, leave no witnesses behind.
I didn't plan on crossing paths with her.
The girl I'd helped just hours earlier.
The girl I should've left behind.
Hurting her was never part of the plan.
But the way she clung to my arm, her grip trembling with something between terror and silent resignation, broke my resolve.
I couldn't bring myself to kill her.
So I did something far more reckless.
I took her instead.
*Bound to a Killer is a standalone dark romance with no cliffhanger. Suitable for ages 18+.
Reader discretion is advised.
When Tatum's car slides off the road and into a ditch, she's forced to walk the rest of the way to the haunted trail her boyfriend works.
The last thing she expects is to find him with another girl.
Devastated and stranded deep in the woods with nowhere else to go, she stays, caught on the verge of a confrontation that quickly turns into something far darker.
But that's not even the worst problem.
Because the person who steps forward to help her may be the one she should fear most.
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞: This psychological horror novella contains dark themes, emotional distress, violence, morally unsettling characters, and a brief instance of animal harm. This is not a romance and does not have a happily ever after.