He's watched her for years. Tonight, she finally sees him.
I know how she takes her coffee. I know the colors she stares at through windows she can't afford. I know the nights she cries with the water running so no one will hear.
I have catalogued every wound she has ever tried to hide.
She doesn't know I exist.
She will.
Eden Cross has spent years perfecting the art of being invisible. A new city. A cash-only apartment. A fake name, a burner phone, a knife in the kitchen drawer. Rituals built to keep her ghosts — and one man in particular — from ever finding her again.
But someone already has.
When a masked intruder breaks through her locked door, Eden is saved by a stranger who moves like violence and says her name like a vow. Kade Rios is a weapon of the Black Rose Brotherhood — cold, controlled, lethal. And he's been watching her far longer than she could ever imagine.
Locked inside his glass-and-marble penthouse, Eden discovers the truth: the journal filled with her secrets. The cameras. The dress she once wanted, pressed and waiting in the closet. Years of obsessive devotion written by a man who built an entire world around her absence.
She should run.
But Kade isn't the only one hunting her. A ghost from Eden's past has crawled out of his grave — and he's left a message claiming what was never his.
Kade has killed for less.
For Eden, he'll burn the world.
CLAIMED is Book 1 in the Black Rose Mafia series — five interconnected dark romances featuring the dangerous men of the Brotherhood and the women who bring them to their knees.
A dark mafia romance featuring a morally gray anti-hero, stalker/obsession themes, forced proximity, touch-her-and-die devotion, and a heroine who stops running. Includes explicit content and dark themes — reader discretion advised. HEA guaranteed.
