Drowning in Darkness (The Ruthless Creatures #3)

He kidnapped me before the other monster could.

James Austin is the kind of man mothers warn their daughters about. A killer. A monster. The last man I should ever trust. He turned out to be the only one I could.

After years imprisoned by the horrors of my past, I’m finally free. For the first time in my life, I have a home. Friends. A future. Then someone decides I belong to him.

He finds his way into the charity where I work. He watches. He waits. He smiles like he’s already won. While every instinct I fought so hard to trust tells me the nightmare isn’t over.

Before he can make his move, James crashes into my life. He steals me from my home in the middle of the night and delivers me into FBI protection. I think I’m finally safe. Then the safe house burns.

With nowhere left to run and no one left to trust, I’m hidden away in James’s isolated mountain lodge while the monster hunting me draws ever closer. I should fear the man protecting me.

He’s ruthless. Merciless. A man haunted by the blood on his hands. But the longer we’re trapped together, the harder it becomes to ignore the truth. The monster hunting me wants to own me.

The monster protecting me would burn the world to keep me alive.

James is convinced he belongs in the darkness. The deeper he sinks the harder I’ll fight to pull him back into the light.