Stay Stll: Dark Mafia Romance (The Edge of Ruin Series Book 1)

MIRANDA

I was supposed to be a casualty of the shadows, a witness silenced in a rain-slicked alley. Instead, I became the obsession of the man sent to end me. Gideon Stride is a predator in a tailored suit, a monster who replaced the barrel of a gun with a touch that brands me and a gaze that strips me bare. Trapped in his high-rise sanctuary, I am no longer a person with a name; I am a ghost haunted by the very man who should have been my executioner.

The more he breaks my will, the more I find myself craving the ruin he offers. His dominance is a poison I drink willingly, a dark liberation that turns my terror into a desperate, aching need for his touch. I should hate him for the gilded cage he's built around me, yet I find myself drowning in the storm of his intensity. In this world of blood and betrayal, his possession is the only thing that makes me feel alive, even if it eventually becomes my downfall.

GIDEON

She was a loose end I was paid to tie off, a witness whose life should have ended the moment she saw too much. But when I pinned her against that brick wall, the fire in her eyes did what a decade of violence couldn't—it stopped me cold. Now, the bullet I was supposed to put in her heart has turned into a hunger I cannot satisfy. I've traded my loyalty to the syndicate for the scent of her skin and the thrill of her defiance.

Miranda is my addiction and my destruction, a beautiful liability I refuse to release. I will tear the city apart to keep her, shielding her from the monsters I used to call brothers while I claim every inch of her soul. She thinks she's my prisoner, but she's the only thing tethering me to a world that's burning down around us.

This is the first book in The Edge of Ruin Series. Reading order: Stay Still, Don't Run, You're Mine.